ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Lightsheet Brillouin Nanoscopy: mechano-sensitive superresolution imaging for regenerative medicine
Better microscopes have always triggered scientific discovery. Lightsheet microscopy and nanoscopy are no exception and have initiated knowledge jumps in structural and dynamical imaging. However, they do not inform us on mechanical properties. The domain of mechano-sensitive microscopy is still in its infancy yet has already unveiled a stark dependence of cellular development on local stiffness and viscoelasticity. For instance, coordinated strain on the sub-millimetre scale is a key ingredient to grow induced pluripotent stem stells into a beating adult cardiac muscle; without such an environment, a twitching heap of cardiomyocytes develops instead. What are the processes within cells…
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