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The Optical Trap
How a laser beam and some clever engineering spawned a biophysics revolution

Email: Don Monroe - dmonroe@the-scientist.com
The Scientist 2005, 19(16):48

Published 29 August 2005

When Art Ashkin, Steve Chu, and their colleagues at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ, first invented optical tweezers, they spent their days pushing around tiny, glass spheres. But it wasn't long after their 1986 discovery that they began to think about biology.


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