Lipid droplet biogenesis and functions in health and disease

A Zadoorian, X Du, H Yang - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2023 - nature.com
Ubiquitous yet unique, lipid droplets are intracellular organelles that are increasingly being
recognized for their versatility beyond energy storage. Advances uncovering the intricacies …

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy

EHK Stelzer, F Strobl, BJ Chang, F Preusser… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) uses a thin sheet of light to excite only
fluorophores within the focal volume. Light sheet microscopes (LSMs) have a true optical …

Sparse deconvolution improves the resolution of live-cell super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

W Zhao, S Zhao, L Li, X Huang, S Xing, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A main determinant of the spatial resolution of live-cell super-resolution (SR) microscopes is
the maximum photon flux that can be collected. To further increase the effective resolution …

NAFLD: mechanisms, treatments, and biomarkers

F Nassir - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), recently renamed metabolic-associated fatty liver
disease (MAFLD), is one of the most common causes of liver diseases worldwide. NAFLD is …

Rationalized deep learning super-resolution microscopy for sustained live imaging of rapid subcellular processes

C Qiao, D Li, Y Liu, S Zhang, K Liu, C Liu, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The goal when imaging bioprocesses with optical microscopy is to acquire the most
spatiotemporal information with the least invasiveness. Deep neural networks have …

Mitochondria as cellular and organismal signaling hubs

K Shen, CL Pender, R Bar-Ziv, H Zhang… - Annual review of cell …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Mitochondria are traditionally known as the powerhouse of the cell, but their functions
extend far beyond energy production. They are vital in cellular and organismal pathways …

Whole-cell organelle segmentation in volume electron microscopy

L Heinrich, D Bennett, D Ackerman, W Park, J Bogovic… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Cells contain hundreds of organelles and macromolecular assemblies. Obtaining a
complete understanding of their intricate organization requires the nanometre-level, three …

A highly photostable and bright green fluorescent protein

M Hirano, R Ando, S Shimozono, M Sugiyama… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The low photostability of fluorescent proteins is a limiting factor in many applications of
fluorescence microscopy. Here we present StayGold, a green fluorescent protein (GFP) …

Quantum-enhanced nonlinear microscopy

CA Casacio, LS Madsen, A Terrasson, M Waleed… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The performance of light microscopes is limited by the stochastic nature of light, which exists
in discrete packets of energy known as photons. Randomness in the times that photons are …

Real-time denoising enables high-sensitivity fluorescence time-lapse imaging beyond the shot-noise limit

X Li, Y Li, Y Zhou, J Wu, Z Zhao, J Fan, F Deng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A fundamental challenge in fluorescence microscopy is the photon shot noise arising from
the inevitable stochasticity of photon detection. Noise increases measurement uncertainty …