The role and importance of mechanical properties of cells and tissues in cellular function,
development and disease has widely been acknowledged, however standard techniques …

Many important biological functions and processes are reflected in cell and tissue
mechanical properties such as elasticity and viscosity. However, current techniques used for …

Maintaining and modulating mechanical anisotropy is essential for biological processes.
However, how this is achieved at the microscopic scale in living soft matter is not always …

Brillouin microscopy is an emerging optical elastography technique capable of assessing
mechanical properties of biological samples in a three-dimensional, all-optical and …

During cancer metastasis, tumor cells undergo significant deformation in order to traverse
through endothelial cell junctions in the walls of blood vessels. As cells pass through narrow …

Label-free, non-contact imaging with mechanical contrast and optical sectioning is a
substantial challenge in microscopy. Spontaneous Brillouin scattering microscopy meets this …

Brillouin microscopy can assess mechanical properties of biological samples in a three-
dimensional (3D), all-optical and hence non-contact fashion, but its weak signals often lead …

Several techniques have been developed over the past few decades to assess the
mechanical properties of biological samples, which has fueled a rapid growth in the fields of …

The mechanical properties of the cellular nucleus are extensively studied as they play a
critical role in important processes, such as cell migration, gene transcription, and stem cell …

Quantitative measurements of physical parameters become increasingly important for
understanding biological processes. Brillouin microscopy (BM) has recently emerged as one …