ReviewBiophysical reviews2020
Recent progress and current opinions in Brillouin microscopy for life science applications.
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- Towards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data.Nature methods · 2026Article
- Multiscale Architecture and Mechanics of the Cell Nucleus: Implications for Disease, Bioengineering and Nanomedicine.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Dual Optical Elastography Techniques Reveal the Regulation of Corneal Stiffness by Collagen XIV.Journal of biophotonics · 2026Article
- Active and probe-free intracellular rheology via phase-sensitive thermoviscous flows.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- The mechanical properties ofScience advances · 2026Article
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- Discovering the unexpected: Insights into the dynamics of mouse neural tube closure revealed by time-lapse imaging.Developmental biology · 2026Review
- Brillouin microscopy in cancer research: a review.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Review
- Cellular mechanical properties in response to environmental viscosity imaged by Brillouin Microscopy.Communications biology · 2025Article
- All-optical nonlinear activation function based on stimulated Brillouin scattering.Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Article
- Self-driving microscopy detects the onset of protein aggregation and enables intelligent Brillouin imaging.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Assessing UVA and Laser-Induced Crosslinking via Brillouin Microscopy.Journal of biophotonics · 2025Article
- Ultrafast line-field holographic elastography with single excitation for corneal biomechanical characterization.Biomedical optics express · 2025Article
- The mechanobiology of biomolecular condensates.Biophysics reviews · 2025Review
- The viscoelastic properties of Nicotiana tabacum BY-2 suspension cell lines adapted to high osmolarity.BMC plant biology · 2025Article
- Investigation of corneal hydration and the impact of cross-linking therapy on water retention using Brillouin spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Full-field Brillouin microscopy based on an imaging Fourier-transform spectrometer.Nature photonics · 2025Article
- Optical characterization of molecular interaction strength in protein condensates.Molecular biology of the cell · 2024Article
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- Optical characterization of molecular interaction strength in protein condensates.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Many important biological functions and processes are reflected in cell and tissue mechanical properties such as elasticity and viscosity. However, current techniques used for measuring these properties have major limitations, such as that they can often not measure inside intact cells and/or require physical contact-which cells can react to and change. Brillouin light scattering offers the ability to measure mechanical properties in a non-contact and label-free manner inside of objects with high spatial resolution using light, and hence has emerged as an attractive method during the past decade. This new approach, coined "Brillouin microscopy," which integrates highly interdisciplinary concepts from physics, engineering, and mechanobiology, has led to a vibrant new community that has organized itself via a European funded (COST Action) network. Here we share our current assessment and opinion of the field, as emerged from a recent dedicated workshop. In particular, we discuss the prospects towards improved and more bio-compatible instrumentation, novel strategies to infer more accurate and quantitative mechanical measurements, as well as our current view on the biomechanical interpretation of the Brillouin spectra.
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