Checking whether an avocado is hard or soft by looking at it? This would require recognizing how the plant cells behave behind the skin. The same applies to all other cells on our planet: Despite more ...

A project at the University of Göttingen has developed a new technique for assessing the mechanical behavior of constituent components within living cells. Reported in Nature Materials, the findings ...

A view into the cell using an optical laser trap: it localizes microscopic particles in order to draw conclusions about their random trembling movement. A new approach developed by the Göttingen ...