Optical tweezers for single cells

By Hu Zhang, Kuo-Kang Liu. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2008

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics

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A Microfluidic Chip for Cell Patterning Utilizing Paired Microwells and Protein Patterns † (2016, background): “Certain types of physical cell patterning approaches such as inkjet cell printing [13,17], optical tweezers [18,19], dielectrophoresis [8,20,21] and laser-guided direct writing [22,23], position cells into specific locations directly, utilizing actively applied external forces.”
Particle tracking in living cells: a review of the mean square displacement method and beyond (2013, background): “2001) or pulled by magnetic or optical tweezers (Bausch et al. 1998; Tanase et al. 2007; Van Vliet et al. 2003; Zhang and Liu 2008).”
Biomedical Applications of Untethered Mobile Milli/Microrobots (2015, background): “While manipulation of immotile cell is relative easy, manipulation of flagellated bacteria is much more challenging, which is conventionally done by optical tweezers with the cell threaten by photo damage [131], [132].”
Review on Cell Mechanics: Experimental and Modeling Approaches (2013, background): “Some of the advantages associated with using optical traps include the lack of physical contact between the cell and the force-producing mechanism, i.e., the laser, which can induce changes in the cell's mechanical properties, and can also be used to both apply and measure forces [171].”
A Review of Cell Adhesion Studies for Biomedical and Biological Applications (2015, background): “OT uses a highly focused laser beam to trap and manipulate microscopic, neutral objects such as small dielectric spherical particles that experience two kinds of forces: namely, the scattering force and the gradient force [129,130].”
Optical macro-tweezers: trapping of highly motile micro-organisms (2011, background): “size from biological cells, cell vesicles or micro-droplets [5]”