A new review conveys the latest achievements in optical tweezers. Optical tweezers (OTs), also known as optical traps, are highly focused laser beams that can be used to trap and manipulate ...

Optoelectronic tweezers (OET) represent a cutting‐edge approach that employs projected light patterns to generate virtual electrodes on a photoconductive surface. These electrodes induce ...

Cell and gene therapy are revolutionary approaches to treating diseases at the molecular level. They involve the manipulation ...

Acoustic tweezers can control target movement through the interaction of momentum between an acoustic wave and an object. Due to their high tissue penetrability and strong acoustic radiation force, ...

What if CAR T cells, revolutionary cancer fighters normally manufactured in the lab, could be created inside the patient? This quest to simplify CAR T therapy has brought two biotech companies to a ...

Quantifying interaction forces between cells or between cells and substrates is a key challenge in cell biology, tissue engineering, and materials research. The Nanosurf Flex-FPM, equipped with ...

A team at Kobe University has created a game-changing resource for autism research: 63 mouse embryonic stem cell lines, each carrying a genetic mutation strongly associated with the disorder. By ...

Electroporation — the use of high-voltage electric pulses to introduce DNA/RNA/proteins into cells — has made cellular engineering and gene expression easier than ever imagined. One version of this ...

The study of biological systems varies from whole organisms, organs, and organoids, down to their building blocks of proteins and cells. At the lower end of the scale, atomic force microscope (AFM) ...