Understanding DNA organization, damage, and repair with super-resolution fluorescence microscopy

Author(s):  
Esther Miriklis ◽  
Ashley Rozario ◽  
Eli Rothenberg ◽  
Toby D.M. Bell ◽  
Donna Rose Whelan
Pharmaceutics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 861
Author(s):  
Jacopo Cardellini ◽  
Arianna Balestri ◽  
Costanza Montis ◽  
Debora Berti

In the past decade(s), fluorescence microscopy and laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) have been widely employed to investigate biological and biomimetic systems for pharmaceutical applications, to determine the localization of drugs in tissues or entire organisms or the extent of their cellular uptake (in vitro). However, the diffraction limit of light, which limits the resolution to hundreds of nanometers, has for long time restricted the extent and quality of information and insight achievable through these techniques. The advent of super-resolution microscopic techniques, recognized with the 2014 Nobel prize in Chemistry, revolutionized the field thanks to the possibility to achieve nanometric resolution, i.e., the typical scale length of chemical and biological phenomena. Since then, fluorescence microscopy-related techniques have acquired renewed interest for the scientific community, both from the perspective of instrument/techniques development and from the perspective of the advanced scientific applications. In this contribution we will review the application of these techniques to the field of drug delivery, discussing how the latest advancements of static and dynamic methodologies have tremendously expanded the experimental opportunities for the characterization of drug delivery systems and for the understanding of their behaviour in biologically relevant environments.


The Analyst ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 139 (12) ◽  
pp. 3174-3178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian L. Gunsolus ◽  
Dehong Hu ◽  
Cosmin Mihai ◽  
Samuel E. Lohse ◽  
Chang-soo Lee ◽  
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Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando D Stefani ◽  
Alan M. M. Szalai ◽  
Cecilia Zaza

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) form a well-established family of techniques that has provided unique tools to study the dynamic architecture and functionality of biological systems,...


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunyan Yao ◽  
Jianwei Zhang ◽  
Guang Wu ◽  
Houxiang Zhang

Motion analysis plays an important role in studing activities or behaviors of live objects in medicine, biotechnology, chemistry, physics, spectroscopy, nanotechnology, enzymology, and biological engineering. This paper briefly reviews the developments in this area mostly in the recent three years, especially for cellular analysis in fluorescence microscopy. The topic has received much attention with the increasing demands in biomedical applications. The tasks of motion analysis include detection and tracking of objects, as well as analysis of motion behavior, living activity, events, motion statistics, and so forth. In the last decades, hundreds of papers have been published in this research topic. They cover a wide area, such as investigation of cell, cancer, virus, sperm, microbe, karyogram, and so forth. These contributions are summarized in this review. Developed methods and practical examples are also introduced. The review is useful to people in the related field for easy referral of the state of the art.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Jia ◽  
Boran Han ◽  
J. Nathan Kutz

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