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Examine Cell Mechanics With Fast Single Cell Force Spectroscopy

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Examine Cell Mechanics With Fast Single Cell Force Spectroscopy

What promotes cell adhesion, what reduces it? And by how much? Working with cell cultures, adhesion or the lack thereof has great impact on culture viability, growth speed, and even differentiation. Using unique microfabricated and force-sensitive pipettes, the adhesion of cells can now be quantified much faster and studied on the single cell level with FluidFM technology.

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