Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1986, American physicist Arthur Ashkin developed a fascinating tool that could gently pick and move microscopic objects like ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have long sought to develop versatile tools that allow precise manipulation and identification of DNA and other biological nanoparticles. Optical tweezers, which use lasers ...

MIT researchers have harnessed integrated optical phased array (OPA) technology to develop a type of integrated optical tweezers, akin to a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam”—like the one that ...

Optical tweezers use laser light to manipulate small particles. A new method has been advanced using Stampede2 supercomputer simulations that makes optical tweezers safer to use for potential ...

A team of physicists at Harvard University has succeeded in trapping individual polyatomic molecules in optical tweezer arrays for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the ...

(Nanowerk News) Optical tweezers manipulate tiny things like cells and nanoparticles using lasers. While they might sound like tractor beams from science fiction, the fact is their development ...

a, The diagrammatic sketch of the three components in the solution: DNA@AuNS conjugate, CRISPR/Cas12a complex, and target ssDNA. b, Optical setup, the BS, SPF, and TL are beam splitter, short pass ...