Advances in nanotechnology have opened up a new era of diagnosis, prevention and
treatment of diseases and traumatic injuries. Nanomaterials, including those with potential …

Employing theranostic nanoparticles, which combine both therapeutic and diagnostic
capabilities in one dose, has promise to propel the biomedical field toward personalized …

Optical spectroscopy at the ultimate limit of a single molecule has grown over the past dozen
years into a powerful technique for exploring the individual nanoscale behavior of molecules …

Providing much-needed information on fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy, this
ready reference covers detection techniques, data registration, and the use of spectroscopic …

We have studied the diffusion of tracer proteins in highly concentrated random-coil polymer
and globular protein solutions imitating the crowded conditions encountered in cellular …

Cell biologists strive to characterize molecular interactions directly in the intracellular
environment. The intrinsic resolution of optical microscopy, however, allows visualization of …

The initial steps toward optical detection and spectroscopy of single molecules in
condensed matter arose out of the study of inhomogeneously broadened optical absorption …

Confocal fluorescence microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) have
been employed to investigate the lipid spatial and dynamic organization in giant unilamellar …

To probe the complexity of the cell membrane organization and dynamics, it is important to
obtain simple physical observables from experiments on live cells. Here we show that …

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is an ideal analytical tool for studying
concentrations, propagation, interactions and internal dynamics of molecules at nanomolar …