Ben-Yakar, A., Chronis, N., and Hang Lu, "Microfluidic tools for the analysis of behavior and neural cell physiology in worms," Invited Review for Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 19, 561-567 (2009).  

Ben-Yakar, A. and F. Bourgeois, “Ultrafast laser surgery in microfluidics for genome-wide screenings,” Invited Review Paper, Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 20, 100-105 (2009). 

Chokshi, T., A. Ben-Yakar, and N. Chronis, “CO₂ and compressive immobilization of C. elegans on-chip,” Lab on a Chip 9, 151-157 (2009).

Guo, S.X. and A. Ben-Yakar, “Femtosecond laser nanoablation of glass in the near-field of single wall carbon nanotube bundles,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41, 185306-185313 (2008).

Ekici, O., R. K. Harrison, N. J. Durr, D. S. Eversole, and A. Ben-Yakar, "Thermal analysis of gold nanorods heated with femtosecond laser pulses," Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41, 185501-185512 (2008).

• The paper has been selected as one of the highlights of the articles published in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics in 2008.

Hoy, C.L., N. J. Durr, P. Chen, W. Piyawattanametha, H. Ra, O. Solgaard, and A. Ben-Yakar, "Miniaturized probe for femtosecond laser microsurgery and two-photon imaging", Optics Express, 16 (13), 9996 -10005 (2008).

Commentary articles appeared in:

• Medical News Today, June 25, 2008. Read Commentary
  
• Science Daily, June 26, 2008. Read Commentary
  
• Technology Review, July 9, 2008. Read Commentary
  
• ABC News, July 10, 2008. Read Commentary
  

Interview by Emily Donahue “Laser Scalpel Holds Promise For Precise Surgery” aired by KUT 90.5 Austin on July 02, 2008. Listen to Interview

Aglyamov, S.R., A. B. Karpiouk, F. Bourgeois, A. Ben-Yakar, and S. Y. Emelianov, “Ultrasound measurements of cavitation bubble radius for femtosecond laser-induced breakdown in water,” Optics Letters 33 (12), 1357-1359 (2008).

Karpiouk, A.B., S. R. Aglyamov, F. Bourgeois, A. Ben-Yakar, and S. Y. Emelianov, "Quantitive ultrasound method to detect and monitor laser-induced cavitation bubbles," J. Biomed. Optics 13(3), 034011 (2008).

Guo, S.X., F. Bourgeois, T. Chokshi, N. J. Durr, M. A. Hilliard, N. Chronis, and A. Ben-Yakar, "Femtosecond laser nanoaxotomy lab-on-a-chip for in vivo nerve regeneration studies," Nature Methods, 5(6), 531-533 (2008). 

• Commentary article about our work was written by Jeffrey Perkel, "Microfluidics- Bringing New Things to Life Science," published in Science, Nov. 7, 2008. Read Commentary

• News and Views article describing our work as pioneering was written by our colleagues S.E. Hulme, S.S. Shevkoplyas, and A. Samuel, "Microfluidics: streamlining discovery in worm biology," Nature Methods 5 (7), 589-590, July (2008). Read Commentary

• Commentary article "Worm-on-a-chip boosts understanding of nerves" appeared in New Scientist, April 21, 2008. Read Commentary

• Commentary article by Roger Highfield "Scientists invent microscopic operating table for 1-mm worm,"Telegraph.uk.com, April 13, 2008.  

Eversole, D.S., B. Luk’yanchuk, and A. Ben-Yakar, “Plasmonic laser nanoablation of silicon by the scattering of ultrafast pulses near gold nanospheres,” Invited Paper, Applied Physics A, 89, 283–291 (2007).