News and events
Have a look at our latest news:
The characterization of cell membrane elasticity as a new potential biomarker for leukemia cells with IMPETUX technology
Researchers from the Optics Research Unit at De La Salle University and AIST-Osaka University have recently published and study where they have used a customized optical trapping system from IMPETUX to characterize cell membrane elasticity.
How SENSOCELL offers the possibility to address fundamental questions about the mechanobiology of cells
The unique force measuring capabilities of SENSOCELL offer Dr. Krieg, from the Neurophotonics and Mechanical Systems Biology group at the Institute of Photonics Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona, the possibility to address fundamental questions about the mechanobiology of cells
Measuring forces, deformation and mechanical properties of cell nucleus with SENSOCELL
Researchers from Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) , Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and University of Applied Science Upper Austria have recently published an amazing Science article in where they show that the nucleus, translates cell shape changes into a deformation signal regulating cell behavior.
Collaborations to carry out cutting edge research
Impetux collaborates with several Mechanobiology Research projects. Nucleux is one of them. With an interdisciplinary vision: physics, biology, mathematics and medicine, the project aims to understand the basic mechanisms behind the complexity of the cell nucleus, and...
Microrheology of soft biological samples using SENSOCELL optical tweezers.
Microrheology of soft biological samples using SENSOCELL optical tweezers. It is already available an application note where we show how SENSOCELL optical tweezers can be used to measure the viscoelastic properties of soft hydrogels, extracellular matrices or...
H2020 Funding
H2020 Funding Aug 30, 2019 We are pleased to announce that IMPETUX has been awarded with the European Commission funding (SME phase 1 instrument), to explore and validate a revolutionary application of our patented technology for force measurement in tissues and...
Here you will find our upcoming and past events
Impetux at Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology N4M 2022
We are excited about giving a talk at the next N4M 2022 conference. There, we will show the unique possibilities of our direct force spectroscopy technology and show plenty of colorful application examples of SENSOCELL optical tweezers in Cell Mechanobiology research. Looking forward to it!
IMPETUX at BPS 2022
Join Impetux CEO, Oriol Nos Aguilà, for a presentation on the SENSOCELL: Optical Tweezers integrating direct force spectroscopy & correlated fluorescence imaging for extra- and intracellular mechanobiology. The talk will introduce the key distinctive features of the technology and show examples and results obtained by customers & scientific collaborators for applications in living cells.
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