Shining a light on cancer—Photonics in microfluidic tumor modeling and biosensing

CF Guimarães, D Cruz‐Moreira… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic platforms represent a powerful approach to miniaturizing important
characteristics of cancers, improving in vitro testing by increasing physiological relevance …

Micropatterned hydrogels with highly ordered cellulose nanocrystals for visually monitoring cardiomyocytes

J Wang, Q Liu, J Gong, Z Wan, J Zhou, C Chang… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiac microphysiological systems are accurate in vitro platforms that reveal the biological
mechanisms underlying cardiopathy, accelerating pharmaceutical research in this field …

How to keep myofibroblasts under control: Culture of mouse skin fibroblasts on soft substrates

DO Son, R Benitez, L Diao, B Hinz - Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2024 - Elsevier
During the physiological healing of skin wounds, fibroblasts recruited from the uninjured
adjacent dermis and deeper subcutaneous fascia layers are transiently activated into …

Real-time monitoring of the interelectrode gap during electrochemical machining processes using a smart machine tool equipped with an optical fiber Fabry-Pérot …

F Zhou, S Chen, X Fu, MBG Jun - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Being a problem that has long plagued the field of electrochemical machining process, real-
time and high precision monitoring of the interelectrode gap is a difficult task. In this …

Harmonics-assisted optical phase amplifier

WZ Li, C Yang, ZY Zhou, Y Li, YH Li, SJ Niu… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
The change in the relative phase between two light fields serves as a basic principle for the
measurement of the physical quantity that guides this change. It would therefore be highly …

A multi-modal microscope for integrated mapping of cellular forces and Brillouin scattering with high resolution

AT Meek, F Busse, NM Kronenberg… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Mechanical forces and stiffness play key roles in the health and development of cells and
tissue, but despite the physical connection between these quantities, they cannot be …

Optical mapping of ground reaction force dynamics in freely behaving Drosophila melanogaster larvae

JH Booth, AT Meek, NM Kronenberg, SR Pulver… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
During locomotion, soft-bodied terrestrial animals solve complex control problems at
substrate interfaces, but our understanding of how they achieve this without rigid …

Nanoscale tracking combined with cell-scale microrheology reveals stepwise increases in force generated by cancer cell protrusions

L Sikic, E Schulman, A Kosklin, A Saraswathibhatla… - Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In early breast cancer progression, cancer cells invade through a nanoporous basement
membrane (BM) as a first key step toward metastasis. This invasion is thought to be …