Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

Mechanobiology emerges at the crossroads of medicine, biology, biophysics and
engineering and describes how the responses of proteins, cells, tissues and organs to …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful, multifunctional imaging platform that allows
biological samples, from single molecules to living cells, to be visualized and manipulated …

During the last three decades, a series of key technological improvements turned atomic
force microscopy (AFM) into a nanoscopic laboratory to directly observe and chemically …

The robust, sensitive, and selective detection of targeted biomolecules in their native
environment by prospective nanostructures holds much promise for real-time, accurate, and …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based methods have matured into a powerful nanoscopic
platform, enabling the characterization of a wide range of biological and synthetic …

Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) are extracellular structures derived from the outer
membrane of bacteria. They carry diverse cargos such as proteins, nucleic acids and …

Viral infection is initiated when a virus binds to cell surface receptors. Because the cell
membrane is dynamic and heterogeneous, imaging living cells and simultaneously …

The integrity and morphology of bacteria is sustained by the cell wall, the target of the main
microbial inactivation processes. One promising approach to inactivation is based on the …

We study the correlation between cytoskeleton organization and stiffness of three epithelial
breast cancer cells lines with different degrees of malignancy: MCF-10A (healthy), MCF-7 …