Lipid droplets as endogenous intracellular microlenses

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) activates PPARγ signaling leading to cell cycle exit, lipid accumulation, and autophagy in human meibomian gland epithelial cells (hMGEC)

(2020) Sun Woong Kim et al.   Ocular Surface

Microsphere—Toward Future of Optical Microscopes

(2020) Lianwei Chen et al.   iScience

Single-cell biomagnifier for optical nanoscopes and nanotweezers

(2019) Yuchao Li et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Optical Tweezers: Phototoxicity and Thermal Stress in Cells and Biomolecules

(2019) Alfonso Blázquez-Castro   Micromachines

Waveguiding and focusing in a bio-medium with an optofluidic cell chain

(2019) Tianli Wu et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Subwavelength imaging and detection using adjustable and movable droplet microlenses

(2019) Xixi Chen et al.   Photonics Research

Advances in bioimaging—challenges and potentials

(2018) Christian Eggeling   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS

Enhancement of the Second Harmonic Generation from WS2 Monolayers by Cooperating with Dielectric Microspheres

(2018) Xiaohong Li et al.   Advanced Optical Materials

Investigating fibroblast cells under “safe” and “injurious” blue-light exposure by holographic microscopy

(2016) Alejandro Calabuig et al.   Journal of Biophotonics

Super-Resolution Imaging of a Dielectric Microsphere Is Governed by the Waist of Its Photonic Nanojet

(2016) Hui Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Spider Silk: Mother Nature’s Bio-Superlens

(2016) James N. Monks et al.   NANO LETTERS

Manipulation and detection of single nanoparticles and biomolecules by a photonic nanojet

(2016) Yu-Chao Li et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Photonic Nanojet Array for Fast Detection of Single Nanoparticles in a Flow

(2015) Hui Yang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Intracellular microlasers

(2015) Matjaž Humar et al.   Nature Photonics

Red blood cell as an adaptive optofluidic microlens

(2015) L. Miccio et al.   Nature Communications

Oil droplets of bird eyes: microlenses acting as spectral filters

(2014) D. G. Stavenga et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Super-Resolution Biological Microscopy Using Virtual Imaging by a Microsphere Nanoscope

(2013) Hui Yang et al.   Small

Label-free super-resolution imaging of adenoviruses by submerged microsphere optical nanoscopy

(2013) Lin Li et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Microsphere based microscope with optical super-resolution capability

(2011) Xiang Hao et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Role of lipid droplet proteins in liver steatosis

(2011) Toshikatsu Okumura   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Endovascular Injury Induces Rapid Phenotypic Changes in Perivascular Adipose Tissue

(2010) Minoru Takaoka et al.   ARTERIOSCLEROSIS THROMBOSIS AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Breaking the Diffraction Barrier: Super-Resolution Imaging of Cells

(2010) Bo Huang et al.   CELL

Fatty Acids from Very Low-Density Lipoprotein Lipolysis Products Induce Lipid Droplet Accumulation in Human Monocytes

(2010) L. J. den Hartigh et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Lipid Droplets Finally Get a Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T

(2009) Robert V. Farese et al.   CELL

Efficient excitation and collection of single-molecule fluorescence close to a dielectric microsphere

(2009) Davy Gérard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Tug-of-war between dissimilar teams of microtubule motors regulates transport and fission of endosomes

(2009) V. Soppina et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bioimage informatics: a new area of engineering biology

(2008) Hanchuan Peng   BIOINFORMATICS

Superlenses to overcome the diffraction limit

(2008) Xiang Zhang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS