Katherine Lugo, Xiaoyu Miao, Fred Rieke, Lih Y. Lin. Remote switching of cellular activity and cell signaling using light in conjunction with quantum dots. Biomedical Optics Express , 2012; 3 (3 ...

An alternative, says the UW team, led by electrical engineer Lih Y. Lin and biophysicist Fred Rieke, is to use quantum dots—tiny semiconductor particles, just a few billionths of a meter across ...

The project was conducted in the laboratories of Fred Rieke in the UW Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Rachel Wong in the UW Department of Biological Structure.