The role and importance of mechanical properties of cells and tissues in cellular function,
development and disease has widely been acknowledged, however standard techniques …

Recent years have witnessed a much broader use of Brillouin inelastic light-scattering
spectroscopy for the investigation of phonons and magnons in novel materials …

After ten years of progress and innovation, optical coherence elastography (OCE) based on
the propagation of mechanical waves has become one of the major and the most studied …

The Year 2022 marks 100 years since Leon Brillouin predicted and theoretically described
the interaction of optical waves with acoustic waves in a medium. Accordingly, this resonant …

Brillouin microscopy is a technique for mechanical characterization of biological material
without contact at high three-dimensional resolution. Here, we introduce dual line-scanning …

Cancer development and progression are closely associated with changes both in the
mechano-cellular phenotype of cancer and stromal cells and in the extracellular matrix …

Many important biological functions and processes are reflected in cell and tissue
mechanical properties such as elasticity and viscosity. However, current techniques used for …

Brillouin spectroscopy and imaging are emerging techniques in analytical science,
biophotonics, and biomedicine. They are based on Brillouin light scattering from acoustic …

The mechanical properties of biological tissues are increasingly recognized as important
factors in developmental and pathological processes. Most existing mechanical …

Durotaxis, the process by which cells follow gradients of extracellular mechanical stiffness,
has been proposed as a mechanism driving directed migration. Despite the lack of evidence …