We present nanophotonic methods that may enable unprecedented data about biochemical systems, at rates previously unattainable. We use our lab's Si-photonic "Very-large-scale Integrated high-Q Nanophotonic Pixels" (VINPix), that achieve high-Q factors, subwavelength mode volumes, and controlled dipole-like radiation, simultaneously. We apply these chips to analyse the tumor-immune microenvironment, achieve glyco sequencing, and enable site-specific DNA synthesis. We also present our work uniting nanophotonics and mechanobiology to develop a new class of in vivo force probes, "microgauges", to quantify in-vivo forces in living animals.
Jennifer A. Dionne (Tue,) studied this question.