An ultrasensitive balance has been developed to weigh single or multiple cells, at high time and mass resolution — revealing fast and subtle mass fluctuations during the cell cycle and viral infection.
Affiliations
UCLouvainSST/ISV - Institut des sciences de la vie
Alsteens, D., & Dufrêne, Y. (2017). Biophysics: Rapid mass changes measured in cells. Nature, 550, 465-466. https://doi.org/10.1038/550465a (Original work published 2017)