Multimodal biophysical characterization apparatus, system, method, and use

Abstract

The present application relates to cell biology, and more specifically, to a multimodal biophysical characterization apparatus, a multimodal biophysical characterization system, a multimodal biophysical characterization method, and its use. The present application can achieve multimodal, high-resolution, high-throughput, high-sensitivity, low-cost, low-damage, and configurable physical characterization of single cells or multicellular aggregates, and can subject the sample to be tested to stimuli of different types and intensities (such as mechanical stimulation, electrical stimulation, light stimulation, etc.) to better simulate the in vivo microenvironment, as well as perform operations on samples at specific positions or regions (such as marking, fixing, ablating, cutting, extracting, sorting, etc.), and combine with other characterization methods (such as protein staining, histochemical staining, single-cell sequencing, etc.) for comparative analysis. The multimodal biophysical characterization apparatus provided by the present application is suitable for fields such as synthetic biology, diagnostics, drug discovery, early tumor screening, cell therapy, and precision medicine.

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