Nano scale research could yield better ways to identify and track malignant cells
Monday, January 26, 2015 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
As a young physicist in the former Soviet Union, Igor Sokolov studied the biggest of the big—the entire universe. Now, as a professor of mechanical engineering at Tufts, he's focused on the tiny, the nano. By zooming in—way, way in—Sokolov and his colleagues study everything from bacteria to beetles down to the nanoscale level. Now he's turned a fresh eye on one of medicine's oldest problems: cancer.