Confinement and deformation of single cells and their nuclei inside size-adapted microtubes.

"The authors thank the Gurdon Institute Imaging facility, especially Nicola Lawrence and Richard Butler, for support in image acquisition and analysis and the Biotec Light Microscopy Facility for training for the LSM700 microscope. The authors appreciate the design of Figure 1a by Dr. R. Träger. The results leading to this work have been financially supported by the Volkswagen Foundation (86 362) and the European Research Council (ERC) for Starting Grant “Lab-in-a-tube and Nanorobotics biosensors; LT-NRBS” [no. 311529]. C.K.S. acknowledges funding by a FEBS Return-to-Europe fellowship. Research in the SPJ laboratory is funded by Cancer Research UK, the ERC, and the European Community Seventh Framework Programme (DDResponse) with core infrastructure provided by Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust."