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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The bulk properties of a cell's cytoplasm have long been thought to resemble those of hydrogels, such as agar or children's party


jelly. Now, using measurements on single cells, Ben Fabry and colleagues show that, in fact, they more closely resemble a soft glass. Fabry and colleagues attached ferrimagnetic beads to the


surface of single cells, held them in place with optical tweezers, and then rolled them back and forth in an oscillating electric field. By following the movement of these beads, a number


of physical properties of the cytoplasm, such as the elastic modulus, could be estimated. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through


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Read our FAQs * Contact customer support ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER * Fabry, B. et al. Scaling the microrheology of living cells. _Phys. Rev. Lett._ 87, 148102 (2001) Article  CAS  Google


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