
The morphology changes as stem cells progress to cancer cells. Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14837 The powerful potential of nanotechnologies and AI to detect oral cancer earlier and more accurately has been revealed by a University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study published in ACS Nano. Researchers from the Faculty of Dentistry combined atomic force microscopy (AFM) with artificial intelligence (AI) to detect changes in cancer cells a