Optical Tweezers for Manipulating Cells and

The implementation of physical mechanisms at the microscale for cell manipulation takes advantage of the scaling laws at sizes comparable to cells sizes. Some of the techniques are widely used and very well developed (see the entries on Cell Patterning on Chip, Dielectrophoretic Motion of Particles and Cells, Optical Tweezers for Manipulating Cells and Particles ). Other techniques are still emerging and our understanding of the practical aspects of these is still evolving. 

Optical Tweezers for Manipulating Cells and Partides, Fig. 2 A typical experimental setup for optical trapping. The lenses on the rail focus the beam onto a diffraction-limited spot, and the... 

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