All living organisms on Earth oscillate at a nanometric scale. These oscillations referred to as nanomotion last as long the organisms are alive and stop as soon they die. It appeared that nanomotion signals not only testifies about the life/death state of the microorganism but also provide information about its metabolism and in certain cases about its virulence too. The very first observation of this peculiar behavior of living matter was highlighted with atomic force microscopes (AFM) and gave rise to various applications such as rapid antibiotic/antifungal/antimitotic sensitivity tests or chemistry independent life detectors.
The aim of this special “Cellular Nanomotion” dedicated issue is to report on the most recent developments in this field and pave the way to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in this fascinating peculiarity of living organisms. “Cellular Nanomotion” is a new field of research that will provide interesting new fundamental biological insights of cells (microorganisms, but also other cell types such as mammalian or plant cells) and will lead to many new applications in the near future.
This Research Topic accepts manuscripts around the following themes:
• New method development to measure cellular nanomotion. These can be improvements of existing methods (such as the AFM-cantilever based nanomotion, the optical nanomotion, etc) or new methods; including hardware development and microfluidic chips
• Development of new algorithms (software) to analyse cellular nanomotion.
• New experimental results demonstrating the origin of the nanomotions. Elucidation of correlations between cellular nanomotion and physiological/pathological processes
• New applications that are based on cellular nanomotion measurements.
• Results on various cell types: microorganisms and algae.
• Characterization of cell oscillation.
All living organisms on Earth oscillate at a nanometric scale. These oscillations referred to as nanomotion last as long the organisms are alive and stop as soon they die. It appeared that nanomotion signals not only testifies about the life/death state of the microorganism but also provide information about its metabolism and in certain cases about its virulence too. The very first observation of this peculiar behavior of living matter was highlighted with atomic force microscopes (AFM) and gave rise to various applications such as rapid antibiotic/antifungal/antimitotic sensitivity tests or chemistry independent life detectors.
The aim of this special “Cellular Nanomotion” dedicated issue is to report on the most recent developments in this field and pave the way to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in this fascinating peculiarity of living organisms. “Cellular Nanomotion” is a new field of research that will provide interesting new fundamental biological insights of cells (microorganisms, but also other cell types such as mammalian or plant cells) and will lead to many new applications in the near future.
This Research Topic accepts manuscripts around the following themes:
• New method development to measure cellular nanomotion. These can be improvements of existing methods (such as the AFM-cantilever based nanomotion, the optical nanomotion, etc) or new methods; including hardware development and microfluidic chips
• Development of new algorithms (software) to analyse cellular nanomotion.
• New experimental results demonstrating the origin of the nanomotions. Elucidation of correlations between cellular nanomotion and physiological/pathological processes
• New applications that are based on cellular nanomotion measurements.
• Results on various cell types: microorganisms and algae.
• Characterization of cell oscillation.
