Imagine trying to read the small print on a sign while someone shakes it in front of your face. That, in a nutshell, is the challenge of measuring the electrical activity of living heart cells. Every heartbeat begins with an electrical spike, the action potential, which triggers a rush of calcium inside the cell, which in ...
Imagine you could watch a single molecule inside a living cell respond to its environment in real time – measuring how viscous the fluid around it is, or detecting a fleeting interaction with a neighbouring protein. Techniques like fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) can do exactly that. By measuring how long a fluorescent molecule stays “lit up” after being ...
Imagine being able to see an object hidden around a corner or behind a wall, it sounds like science fiction. Yet this is exactly what our group is working on, using the remarkable power of ultrafast light and advanced computing. In our lab, we’ve built a camera system so fast that it can record the exact time each photon of ...
We are excited to welcome you to the new online home of the Extreme Light Research Group at the University of Glasgow! Our group explores cutting-edge solutions harnessing the extraordinary properties of light. What could you do with a camera so fast that it can freeze light in motion? Or with a quantum sensor that can track a single photon’s ...