Optical Photothermal Infrared - Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (OPTIR-FISH)Zhongyue Guo *1, Yeran Bai *2,3, Fátima C. Pereira 4, Ji-Xin Cheng 1,5
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 2Neuroscience Research Institute, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, 3Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp., 4School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, 5Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Photonics Center, Boston University
Here, we present a protocol using optical photothermal infrared-fluorescence in situ hybridization (OPTIR-FISH), also known as mid-infrared photothermal-FISH (MIP-FISH), to identify individual cells and understand their metabolism. This methodology can be applied broadly for diverse applications, including mapping cellular metabolism with single-cell resolution.
