We’re bringing mechanical imaging to the microscale in Leipzig! 🔬

The International Tissue Elasticity Conference #ITEC2026 brings together researchers and clinicians advancing how tissue mechanical properties are measured and understood.

At our booth, we’ll present how Specto Photonics is making the measurement of tissue and cellular mechanical properties accessible with Brillouin microscopy — now plug-and-play thanks to integrated photonics.

Come by to learn how this label-free, non-contact technique can provide new insights into mechanical changes in cells and tissues, in both health and disease.

We look forward to exchanging ideas with researchers across the tissue elasticity and elastography community!

📅 23–25 September 2026

📍 Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ), @Leipzig University

🔗 https://www.itec-conference.org/

A busy booth and many great conversations at ISMB 2026.

We spent a full few days helping visitors discover ALBA and explore how our on-chip spectrometer could support multimodal Brillouin mechanical imaging in the lab.

Bringing together researchers from across disciplines, this year’s ISMB highlighted the growing size and visibility of the mechanobiology community, alongside fast-growing interest in Brillouin imaging.

Thank you to everyone who visited us, attended Giuseppe Antonacci’s talk on our groundbreaking technology and shared such positive feedback. Many thanks also to Massimo Vassalli and the organising team for an excellent conference.

We leave Glasgow inspired and ready to keep the conversation going.

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It was a pleasure to take part in wide-ranging discussions with researchers exploring mechanics from many different perspectives, from molecular and subcellular mechanics to cell and tissue dynamics, plant and bacterial systems, disease and regeneration, and emerging technologies.

For Specto Photonics, these conversations highlighted the important role that non-contact, non-destructive and label-free Brillouin microscopy can play in studying mechanics across biological systems.

A big thank you to EMBLE and scientific organisers Alba Diz-Muñoz, Nicoletta Petridou, Xavier Trepat, Kirsty Wan and Enrique Rojas and everyone who took the time to connect.

Interested in learning more? Don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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Do you want to join our team and help advance Brillouin microscopy around the globe?

Specto Photonics is looking for a Microscopy Application Engineer to support the deployment of ALBA, the first fully integrated Brillouin spectrometer on a chip.

This role puts you at the centre of cutting-edge microscopy applications, combining customer demos, technical presentations, training and hands-on ALBA installation on advanced systems.

The position is based in Italy and requires frequent travel.

Excited by the prospect of supporting both the scientific impact and commercial growth of a breakthrough technology?

Apply through the LinkedIn job opening or contact Specto Photonics.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4421114747/

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Our study revealed the biomechanics of intracellular structures, such as the intracellular envelope and the enclosed nucleoli, that were previously unknown, further showing how these compartments respond to external chemical stimuli.

This demonstrated the potential of this high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging technique to map the mechanical properties of single living cells in a non-invasive way, opening a new window into how cells respond to treatment.

A decade on, the field continues to move forward, building on these early insights to better understand living systems and what lies beneath the surface.

We are proud to be among the key drivers of this progress.

Explore the article to take a closer look:  https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37217

Analytica 2026 was one to remember!

It was a packed few days in Munich, and a real pleasure to engage with so many new and familiar faces. We saw strong interest in our technologies and had many thoughtful exchanges on the possibilities unlocked by integrated Brillouin spectroscopy.

This highly attended edition shows that the conference remains a key gathering for those working at the forefront of analysis and instrumentation.

A big thank you to Mountain Photonics and Dr. Andrea Teuber for hosting us, and to everyone who made time to connect.

🔬 We were excited to showcase our advanced integrated solutions during last week’s workshop on Brillouin microscopy for life science applications hosted by EMBL in Heidelberg.

Our CEO, Giuseppe Antonacci, demonstrated how Brillouin spectral measurements can be significantly accelerated and simplified for mechanobiologists, biophysicists, and biomedical engineers entering the field, using Specto’s proprietary solutions.

Participants also had the opportunity to see our high-rejection BIPD filter in action during a live demonstration by Tzu-Lung Wang (EMBL), showcasing its ultrahigh suppression performance in Brillouin microscopy measurements of highly turbid biological samples, including fresh bone.

It is exciting to witness the continued growth of the Brillouin community and to explore how emerging technologies can empower the next wave of research.

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