Long‐Term Bio‐Spin Readouts Enable Decoding Immune‐Imposed Stress at the Single‐Cell Level
Electronic spin dynamics represent a fundamentally important yet largely unexplored state parameter of living cells, offering stable sensitivity to intracellular paramagnetic environments associated with cellular stress responses. However, how immune-imposed intracellular stress evolves over time and relates to divergent single-cell outcomes remains unclear, owing to the lack of continuous and nonconsumptive readouts. Here, we establish a long-term bio-spin readout based on nanodiamonds hosting nitrogen-vacancy centers as inheritable intracellular spin reporters, enabling continuous spin relaxometry in living cells. By integrating population-level ROS-associated paramagnetic stress profiling with long-term single-cell tracking in Hela and A549 cancer cells during coculture with activated macrophages, we identify three characteristic oxidative-stress trajectory patterns-remote immune stress, immune evasion, and apoptosis-whose distinct temporal dynamics cannot be resolved by endpoint assays alone. Longitudinal bio-spin measurements reveal that immune pressure is encoded not only by instantaneous oxidative levels but also by the temporal accumulation and regulation of intracellular stress. An empirical bio-spin transition range provides an operational reference for distinguishing recoverable stress responses from apoptosis-associated trajectories, while characteristic completion times capture the interaction- and cell-type-dependent kinetics of stress evolution. Together, this work establishes bio-spin dynamics for resolving immune-imposed stress histories and their associations with divergent cellular outcomes in living systems.
Authors
- Min Ke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2174-4669)
- Chunhai Fan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7171-7338)
- Sisi Jia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5877-5138)
- Le Liang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6682-959X)
- Miao Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-5622)
- Haodong Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5822-7353)
- Changming Bao
- Weiming Lin
- Wenjian Luo
- Tao Ding
- Jiaxuan Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5925-9169)
- Nan Zhang
- Xinping Gao
Institutions
- Renji Hospital (CN)
- Shanghai Innovative Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Wuhan University (CN)
- Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials
- Published
- 2026-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.74885
- Primary Topic
- Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Wuhan University