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A universal fluid cell for the imaging of biological specimens in the atomic force microscope

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo, Livan Bladimir Alonso Sarduy, Charles Roduit

Recently, atomic force microscope (AFM) manufacturers have begun producing instruments specifically designed to image biological specimens. In most instances, they are integrated with an inverted optical microscope, which permits concurrent optical and AFM ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Single yeast cell nanomotions correlate with cellular activity

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Anton Malovichko

Living single yeast cells show a specific cellular motion at the nanometer scale with a magnitude that is proportional to the cellular activity of the cell. We characterized this cellular nanomotion pattern of nonattached single yeast cells using classical ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2020

Fiber-Tip Polymer Microcantilever for Fast and Highly Sensitive Hydrogen Measurement

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Jiangtao Zhou, Leonardo Venturelli

Hydrogen as an antioxidant gas has been widely used in the medical and biological fields for preventing cancer or treating inflammation. However, controlling the hydrogen concentration is crucial for practical use due to its explosive property when its vol ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Accurate and rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using a machine learning-assisted nanomotion technology platform

Sandor Kasas, Anthony Vocat

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major public health threat, reducing treatment options for infected patients. AMR is promoted by a lack of access to rapid antibiotic susceptibility tests (ASTs). Accelerated ASTs can identify effective antibiotics for t ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Nanomechanical bio-sensing for fast and reliable detection of viability and susceptibility of microorganisms

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Leonardo Venturelli, Raphaël Foschia

The metabolic activity of living organisms results in cellular motion on a nanometric scale that can be efficiently detected by micro- and nano- fabricated sensors. Quartz crystal microbalance and atomic force microscopy (AFM) inspired techniques have rece ...

Elsevier2021

A simplified version of rapid susceptibility testing of bacteria and yeasts using optical nanomotion detection

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba, Sahand Jamal Rahi, Vojislav Gligorovski

We present a novel optical nanomotion-based rapid antibiotic and antifungal susceptibility test. The technique consisted of studying the effects of antibiotics or antifungals on the nanometric scale displacements of bacteria or yeasts to assess their sensi ...

Frontiers Media SA2024

Force volume and stiffness tomography investigation on the dynamics of stiff material under bacterial membranes

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo, Charles Roduit

The determination of the characteristics of micro-organisms in clinical specimens is essential for the rapid diagnosis and treatment of infections. A thorough investigation of the nanoscale properties of bacteria can prove to be a fundamental tool. Indeed, ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

The Dynamics of Single-Cell Nanomotion Behaviour of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a Microfluidic Chip for Rapid Antifungal Susceptibility Testing

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

The fast emergence of multi-resistant pathogenic yeasts is caused by the extensive-and sometimes unnecessary-use of broad-spectrum antimicrobial drugs. To rationalise the use of broad-spectrum antifungals, it is essential to have a rapid and sensitive syst ...

MDPI2022

Mitochondrial activity detected by cantilever based sensor

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Petar Stupar, Wojciech Chomicki

Our team recently demonstrated that cantilever based devices can detect signature of life in a chemistry independent manner. In this technique, the organism of interest is attached onto a classical AFM cantilever. If alive, it induces nanometre scale oscil ...

Copernicus GmbH2017

Mechanical Properties and Nanomotion of BT-20 and ZR-75 Breast Cancer Cells Studied by Atomic Force Microscopy and Optical Nanomotion Detection Method

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

Cells of two molecular genetic types of breast cancer-hormone-dependent breast cancer (ZR-75 cell line) and triple-negative breast cancer (BT-20 cell line)-were studied using atomic force microscopy and an optical nanomotion detection method. Using the Pea ...

MDPI2023

Silver Nanomaterials in Contemporary Molecular Physiology Research

Sandor Kasas

Silver nanoparticles have numerous potential applications in engineering, industry, biology and medicine. Because of their unique chemical properties, they have become the focus of many research teams all over the world. Silver nanoparticles may exhibit si ...

BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBL LTD2020

Stiffness tomography exploration of living and fixed macrophages

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo, Charles Roduit

Stiffness tomography is a new atomic force microscopy imaging technique that allows highlighting structures located underneath the surface of the sample. In this imaging mode, such structures are identified by investigating their mechanical properties. We ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Fast Self-Assembly Dynamics of a beta-Sheet Peptide Soft Material

Sandor Kasas

Peptide-based hydrogels are promising biocompatible materials for wound healing, drug delivery, and tissue engineering applications. The physical properties of these nanostructured materials depend strongly on the morphology of the gel network. However, th ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Time-Lapse AFM Imaging of DNA Conformational Changes Induced by Daunorubicin

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo, Livan Bladimir Alonso Sarduy

Cancer is a major health issue that absorbs the attention of a large part of the biomedical research. Intercalating agents bind to DNA molecules and can inhibit their synthesis and transcription; thus, they are increasingly used as drugs to fight cancer. I ...

American Chemical Society2013

Differential peptide binding to CD40 evokes counteractive responses

Giovanni Dietler, Sandor Kasas, Livan Bladimir Alonso Sarduy, Charles Roduit

The antigen-presenting cell-expressed CD40 is implied in the regulation of counteractive immune responses such as induction of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-10, respectively. The mechanism of this duality in CD ...

Elsevier2012

Modulation of the nanoscale motion rate of Candida albicans by X-rays

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

IntroductionPatients undergoing cancer treatment by radiation therapy commonly develop Candida albicans infections (candidiasis). Such infections are generally treated by antifungals that unfortunately also induce numerous secondary effects in the patient. ...

Frontiers Media SA2023

Persisting atypical and cystic forms of Borrelia burgdorferi and local inflammation in Lyme neuroborreliosis

Sandor Kasas

Background: The long latent stage seen in syphilis, followed by chronic central nervous system infection and inflammation, can be explained by the persistence of atypical cystic and granular forms of Treponema pallidum. We investigated whether a similar si ...

2008

Nanomotion-Based Drug Sensitivity Prediction in Ovarian and Colon Cancer Cell Lines Using Machine Learning

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

Cancer drug resistance remains a critical challenge in oncology, demanding rapid and reliable diagnostic tools to assess tumor cell susceptibility to treatment. This study presents a nanomotion-based drug susceptibility testing (DST) approach, integrating ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Nanotools and molecular techniques to rapidly identify and fight bacterial infections

Sandor Kasas, Giovanni Longo

Reducing the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is one of the major healthcare issues of our century. In addition to the increased mortality, infections caused by multi-resistant bacteria drastically enhance the healthcare costs, mainly ...

Elsevier2017

Single-Cell Optical Nanomotion of Candida albicans in Microwells for Rapid Antifungal Susceptibility Testing

Sandor Kasas, María Inés Villalba

Candida albicans is an emerging multidrug-resistant opportunistic pathogen representing an important source of invasive disease in humans and generating high healthcare costs worldwide. The development of a rapid and simple antifungal susceptibility test ( ...

MDPI2023