Transfection types, methods and strategies: a technical review

ZX Chong, SK Yeap, WY Ho - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Transfection is a modern and powerful method used to insert foreign nucleic acids into
eukaryotic cells. The ability to modify host cells' genetic content enables the broad …

Intracellular delivery by membrane disruption: mechanisms, strategies, and concepts

MP Stewart, R Langer, KF Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Optical trapping and manipulation of nanostructures

OM Marago, PH Jones, PG Gucciardi, G Volpe… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Optical trapping and manipulation of micrometre-sized particles was first reported in 1970.
Since then, it has been successfully implemented in two size ranges: the subnanometre …

Surgical applications of femtosecond lasers

SH Chung, E Mazur - Journal of biophotonics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond laser ablation permits non‐invasive surgeries in the bulk of a sample with
submicrometer resolution. We briefly review the history of optical surgery techniques and the …

The development and application of femtosecond laser systems

W Sibbett, AA Lagatsky, CTA Brown - Optics Express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
Some background as well as recent progress in the development of femtosecond lasers are
discussed together with a brief outline of a few representative emergent applications in …

Plasma mediated off-resonance plasmonic enhanced ultrafast laser-induced nanocavitation

É Boulais, R Lachaine, M Meunier - Nano letters, 2012 - ACS Publications
The generation of nanobubbles around plasmonic nanostructures is an efficient approach
for imaging and therapy, especially in the field of cancer research. We show a novel method …

Femtosecond laser micro/nano-manufacturing: theories, measurements, methods, and applications

B Guo, J Sun, Y Hua, N Zhan, J Jia, K Chu - Nanomanufacturing and …, 2020 - Springer
Femtosecond laser fabrication has grown to be a major method of extreme manufacturing
because of the extreme energy density and spatial and temporal scales of femtosecond …

Single cell optical transfection

DJ Stevenson, FJ Gunn-Moore… - Journal of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The plasma membrane of a eukaryotic cell is impermeable to most hydrophilic substances,
yet the insertion of these materials into cells is an extremely important and universal …

Light beats the spread:“non‐diffracting” beams

M Mazilu, DJ Stevenson… - Laser & Photonics …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Non‐diffracting” beams do not spread as they propagate. This property is useful in
many areas. Here, the theory, generation, properties, and applications of various “non …

Off-resonance plasmonic enhanced femtosecond laser optoporation and transfection of cancer cells

J Baumgart, L Humbert, É Boulais, R Lachaine… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
A femtosecond laser based transfection method using off-resonance plasmonic gold
nanoparticles is described. For human cancer melanoma cells, the treatment leads to a very …