In-vivo programmable acoustic manipulation of genetically engineered bacteria

Y Yang, Y Yang, D Liu, Y Wang, M Lu, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic tweezers can control target movement through the momentum interaction between
an acoustic wave and an object. This technology has advantages over optical tweezers for …

Recent advances in experimental design and data analysis to characterize prokaryotic motility

MM Dubay, J Acres, M Riekeles, JL Nadeau - Journal of Microbiological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial motility plays a key role in important cell processes such as chemotaxis and biofilm
formation, but is challenging to quantify due to the small size of the individual …

Genomically mined acoustic reporter genes for real-time in vivo monitoring of tumors and tumor-homing bacteria

RC Hurt, MT Buss, M Duan, K Wong, MY You… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ultrasound allows imaging at a much greater depth than optical methods, but existing
genetically encoded acoustic reporters for in vivo cellular imaging have been limited by poor …

Recent advances and current trends in transmission tomographic diffraction microscopy

N Verrier, M Debailleul, O Haeberlé - Sensors, 2024 - mdpi.com
Optical microscopy techniques are among the most used methods in biomedical sample
characterization. In their more advanced realization, optical microscopes demonstrate …

Structure of Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicles revealed by cryo-ET

P Dutka, LA Metskas, RC Hurt, H Salahshoor, TY Wang… - Structure, 2023 - cell.com
Gas vesicles (GVs) are gas-filled protein nanostructures employed by several species of
bacteria and archaea as flotation devices to enable access to optimal light and nutrients …

Three-dimensional quantitative intracellular visualization of graphene oxide nanoparticles by tomographic flow cytometry

D Pirone, M Mugnano, P Memmolo, F Merola… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Interaction of nanoparticles (NPs) with cells is of fundamental importance in biology and
biomedical sciences. NPs can be taken up by cells, thus interacting with their intracellular …

Dehydration of plant cells shoves nuclei rotation allowing for 3D phase-contrast tomography

Z Wang, V Bianco, D Pirone, P Memmolo… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell phase-contrast tomography promises to become decisive for studying 3D
intracellular structures in biology. It involves probing cells with light at wide angles, which …

Gas Vesicle–Blood Interactions Enhance Ultrasound Imaging Contrast

B Ling, JH Ko, B Stordy, Y Zhang, TF Didden… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Gas vesicles (GVs) are genetically encoded, air-filled protein nanostructures of broad
interest for biomedical research and clinical applications, acting as imaging and therapeutic …

Measuring gas vesicle dimensions by electron microscopy

P Dutka, D Malounda, LA Metskas, S Chen… - Protein …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gas vesicles (GVs) are cylindrical or spindle‐shaped protein nanostructures filled with air
and used for flotation by various cyanobacteria, heterotrophic bacteria, and Archaea …

Genetically encodable materials for non-invasive biological imaging

A Farhadi, F Sigmund, GG Westmeyer, MG Shapiro - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Many questions in basic biology and medicine require the ability to visualize the function of
specific cells and molecules inside living organisms. In this context, technologies such as …