Fig. 2. Cell images of living G6D3 cells. (a) Topographical image and (b) deflection image of living cells imaged at a scan size of 70 µm. The bright regions of the image correspond to the nuclei region. The dominant features observed in both images are the cytoskeleton. (c) Crosssection analysis along the flattened cell showing the height of 832 nm. These images did not change during the course of the AFM experiments.