Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical
research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial …

Individual proteins and protein complexes undergo various motion types, including free
diffusion, confinement, subdiffusion and directed motion. Different motion behaviours reflect …

The dry mass and the orientation of biomolecules can be imaged without a label by
measuring their permittivity tensor (PT), which describes how biomolecules affect the phase …

Contact guidance is a powerful topographical cue that induces persistent directional cell
migration. Healthy tissue stroma is characterized by a meshwork of wavy extracellular matrix …

Lipid membranes are found in most intracellular organelles, and their heterogeneities play
an essential role in regulating the organelles' biochemical functionalities. Here we report a …

In developmental biology, knowledge of cell structure and their (morpho) dynamic behavior,
leads to a comprehensive understanding of their conducts and the mechanisms in which …

Fluorescence polarization microscopy images both the intensity and orientation of
fluorescent dipoles and plays a vital role in studying molecular structures and dynamics of …

Septins are cytoskeletal filaments that assemble at the inner face of the plasma membrane.
They are localized at constriction sites and impact membrane remodeling. We report in vitro …

Integrins are transmembrane receptors that, upon activation, bind extracellular ligands and
link them to the actin filament (F-actin) cytoskeleton to mediate cell adhesion and migration …

Optical contrasts in microscopy are sensitive to light polarization, whose interaction with
molecular dipoles provides an important lever for probing molecular orientation. Polarization …