{"id":181688,"date":"2024-01-30T04:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/acoustic-tweezers-manipulate-cells-with-sound-waves"},"modified":"2024-01-30T04:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:22:22","slug":"acoustic-tweezers-manipulate-cells-with-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/acoustic-tweezers-manipulate-cells-with-sound-waves","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic tweezers manipulate cells with sound waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/acoustic-tweezers-manipulate-cells-with-sound-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at MIT, Penn State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a way to manipulate cells in three dimensions using sound waves. These \u201cacoustic tweezers\u201d could make possible 3D printing of cell structures for tissue engineering and other applications, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>Designing tissue implants that can be used to treat human disease requires precisely recreating the natural tissue architecture, but so far it has proven difficult to develop a single method that can achieve that while keeping cells viable and functional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results presented in this paper provide a unique pathway to manipulate biological cells accurately and in three dimensions, without the need for any invasive contact, tagging, or biochemical labeling,\u201d says Subra Suresh, president of Carnegie Mellon and former dean of engineering at MIT. \u201cThis approach could lead to new possibilities for research and applications in such areas as regenerative medicine, neuroscience, tissue engineering, biomanufacturing, and cancer metastasis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at MIT, Penn State University, and Carnegie Mellon University have devised a way to manipulate cells in three dimensions using sound waves. These \u201cacoustic tweezers\u201d could make possible 3D printing of cell structures for tissue engineering and other applications, the researchers say. Designing tissue implants that can be used to treat human disease requires [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,11,19,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}