Current progress in expansion microscopy: chemical strategies and applications

G Wen, V Leen, T Rohand, M Sauer… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a newly developed super-resolution technique, allowing
visualization of biological targets at nanoscale resolution on conventional fluorescence …

Expansion microscopy: A chemical approach for super-resolution microscopy

Y Zhuang, X Shi - Current opinion in structural biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Super-resolution microscopy is a series of imaging techniques that bypass the diffraction
limit of resolution. Since the 1990s, optical approaches, such as single-molecular …

iU-ExM: nanoscopy of organelles and tissues with iterative ultrastructure expansion microscopy

V Louvel, R Haase, O Mercey, MH Laporte… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a highly effective technique for super-resolution
fluorescence microscopy that enables imaging of biological samples beyond the diffraction …

Atmospheric-moisture-induced polyacrylate hydrogels for hybrid passive cooling

RH Galib, Y Tian, Y Lei, S Dang, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Heat stress is being exacerbated by global warming, jeopardizing human and social
sustainability. As a result, reliable and energy-efficient cooling methods are highly sought …

One-step nanoscale expansion microscopy reveals individual protein shapes

AH Shaib, AA Chouaib, R Chowdhury, J Altendorf… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The attainable resolution of fluorescence microscopy has reached the subnanometer range,
but this technique still fails to image the morphology of single proteins or small molecular …

Light microscopy of proteins in their ultrastructural context

O M'Saad, J Bewersdorf - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Resolving the distribution of specific proteins at the nanoscale in the ultrastructural context of
the cell is a major challenge in fluorescence microscopy. We report the discovery of a new …

Single-shot 20-fold expansion microscopy

S Wang, TW Shin, HB Yoder, RB McMillan, H Su… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Expansion microscopy (ExM) is in increasingly widespread use throughout biology because
its isotropic physical magnification enables nanoimaging on conventional microscopes. To …

Lipid expansion microscopy

BM White, P Kumar, AN Conwell, K Wu… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Strategies to visualize cellular membranes with light microscopy are restricted by the
diffraction limit of light, which far exceeds the dimensions of lipid bilayers. Here, we describe …

All-covalent nuclease-resistant and hydrogel-tethered DNA hairpin probes map pN cell traction forces

SA Rashid, Y Dong, H Ogasawara… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cells sense and respond to the physical properties of their environment through receptor-
mediated signaling, a process known as mechanotransduction, which can modulate critical …

Smart sensing hydrogel actuators conferred by MXene gradient arrangement

J Zeng, X Jing, L Lin, G Wang, Y Zhang… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Smart sensing and excellent actuation abilities of natural organisms have driven scientists to
develop bionic soft-bodied robots. However, most conventional robots suffer from poor …