MANDELBROT would have approved. As the founder of fractal geometry, he scoured nature for fractal patterns – and now they’ve been found on the surface of cervical cancer cells.
team at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, used atomic force microscopy (AFM) to look for differences between healthy and cancerous cervical cells. The technique probes cells with tiny “fingers” to test their surface properties, such as strength and roughness.
The group found that the surface of each cell was made up of regions of varying stickiness. After analysing four points on over 300 cells, they discovered that the patterns…
