Shaanxi research team's optical tweezers slicing microscopy technique can solve the difficult problem of imaging suspended cells in three dimensions. The achievement is expected to be used in medical imaging and other fields.

On July 10th, according to the information from the Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, research by Yao Baoli and Xu Xiaohao's team at the National Key Laboratory of Ultrafast Optics Science and Technology has made important progress in the field of biological optical microscopy imaging and micro-manipulation. They proposed the "optical tweezers slicing microscopy" and achieved full optical three-dimensional imaging of suspended biological cells. This opens up new application directions for optical tweezers technology, with huge potential applications in organ-like structure construction, assembly of three-dimensional neutral atom arrays, automated identification and sorting of cells. The above results were published in the top international academic journal "Science Advances".