US Patent:
20110289043, Nov 24, 2011
Inventors:
Subra Suresh - Wellesley MA, US
George E. Karniadakis - Newton MA, US
Bruce Caswell - Providence RI, US
Igor V. Pivkin - Providence RI, US
Dmitry Fedosov - Juelich, DE
David J. Quinn - Cambridge MA, US
Ming Dao - Chestnut Hill MA, US
Assignee:
Brown University Research Foundation - Providence RI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge MA
International Classification:
G06N 5/04
G06F 17/10
Abstract:
The invention in some aspects relates to methods, devices and compositions for evaluating material properties, such as mechanical and rheological properties of substances, particularly biological substances, such as cells, tissues, and biological fluids. In some aspects, the invention relates to methods, devices and compositions for evaluating material properties of deformable objects, such as cells. In further aspects, the invention relates to methods, devices and compositions for diagnosing and/or characterizing disease based on material properties of biological cells.