This article informed the reader about the ultimate microscope that the scientists at University of Sheffield have been trying to develop. Even before, they are the same group of scientists who made an innovative way to take the images of atoms into view in living cells without the aid of the lenses. Currently, they are in the planning stage of creating what they call the ultimate x-ray microscope. (more…)
The article provides information regarding with the current discovery of new evidences showing how the fibrous scaffolding found inside our cells reacts towards obstacles that is present in its environment. This new discovery become possible because the researchers able to use the AFM or atomic force microscope. The said discovery displays a technique in following the growth history of the cell. If this discovery would be proved its validity outside the laboratory, the researchers would one day likely start searching for the clues, while tracking down the trails of spreading cancers, immune cells and other free moving cells that are living inside the human body. According to one of the researchers, their initial reaction while doing this project is that how the cells are being pushed away when they bump with a particular barrier. The researchers suspected that the elongating matrix of filaments in developing actin networks adds more branches in order to counter act the resistance. (more…)