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Device can measure the distribution of tiny particles as they flow through a microfluidic channel.
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Weighing particles at the attogram scale
New device from MIT can measure masses as small as one millionth of a trillionth of a gram, in solution.
A different view of cancer cells
New study measures physical changes in tumor cells as they become metastatic.
New study finds link between cell division and growth rate
Findings answer puzzling question of how cells know when to progress through the cell cycle.
How dense is a cell?
Combining an ancient principle with new technology, MIT researchers have devised a way to answer that question.
School of Engineering Dean Search Advisory Committee appointed
12-member group will be led by Professor Jeffrey Shapiro.
Weighing the cell
MIT biological engineers devise a way to measure, for the first time, how single cells accumulate mass.
Cancer research gets physical
5-year grant from the National Cancer Institute will fund projects by physicists that give a new view of cancer cells.
In Profile: Scott Manalis
His technology to weigh single cells led to an unexpected research focus: figuring out how cancerous cells escape normal growth controls.
