Dr. Yong-qing
Li’s
Biomedical
Optics Lab
Department of
Physics, East Carolina University
The Li group in the news
Tracking
refractive and molecular changes during bacterial spore germination
Nancy D. Lamontagne, Analytical Chemistr,
2010, May.
Optical traps
illuminate the subcellular world
Lauren
I. Rugani, Biophotonics
International,
September, 2006. pp.40-45.
Combing
tweezers and spectroscopy
K. Douglass,
Optics & Photonics News, 10-11, August (2003).
Tweezers Catch and Analyze Particles
Kevin Robinson on Photonics
Technology News,
October 2002.
Researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., have developed a combined laser tweezers and Raman spectroscopy technique that enables them to capture and measure both transparent and nontransparent particles. The system could prove useful in industrial and scientific laboratories.
Raman Spectra from
single cells
Eric Lerner on The Industrial Physicist News,
Volume 8, Number 4, August/September 2002.
Raman spectroscopy is extremely useful to biochemists, with
a single spectrum revealing the presence and relative concentrations of dozens
of chemicals. Spectroscopy of individual
cells is particularly valuable, since it would allow researchers to observe
biochemical changes as they happen during the growth and division or when cells
become sick or cancerous.
Optical-Trapping
System Tested on Living Cells
Tyler Krupa on OSA Optics & Photonics News, Vol. 13, pp.8-9, June 2002.
Scientists at
Raman
Tweezers Probe Living Cells
Jacqueline Hewett on Optics.org, 27 February 2002
ECU group has made the first study of living cells using Raman Tweezers, a combined laser tweezers and Raman spectroscopy (LTRS) system.
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