(Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics) In recent years, optics and photonics, and in particular the microspectroscopic techniques, have demonstrated their effectiveness for the materials analysis. The work ‘Non-contact mechanical and chemical analysis of single living cells by micro-spectroscopic techniques’ which will appear in the journal Nature-Light: Science & Applications (LSA), introduces the use of a new spectrometer capable of analysing living cells in situ, in non-…