Laser-light tweezers help reveal cell secrets

20 Mar 2025
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Itia Favre-Bulle, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Alexander Stilgoe and Mark Watson.

Researchers will soon be able to study biological changes at scales and speeds not previously possible to significantly expand knowledge in areas such as disease progression and drug delivery.

Physicists at The University of Queensland have used “tweezers made from light” to measure activity within microscopic systems over timeframes as short as milliseconds.

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