A CSIC team works with a microscope that 'palps' the cells to advance disease research

A team from the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM), under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), is moving forward in disease research with the help of a microscope that 'palpa' cells.

Optical microscopes helped to see the invisible in the eye, but it has not been until the last decades that a step has been taken much further, with the so-called microscope of atomic forces, which allows us to see and touch atoms. It is at this point that a Spanish laboratory is making a substantial difference thanks to the development of its own techniques within this technology that allow us to interact directly with cells. We go to the Campu…