July 12th AM

Today, Rory and Alex are looking at the data of the precancerous cells that they had collected last week. They probed 4 cell lines with cantilever tip to measure how elastic each cell was. They measure elasticity by indenting the cell with the tip at various regions, especially over the nucleus. The cells auto-fluoresce so thay can view the nucleus , nucleolous and cytoplasm easily. They hope to find a trend of elasticity across the cell lines. So far they have not gotten any good trend yet. There were different slopes on the force map for different cells, indicating different degrees of elasticity.