{"id":198613,"date":"2024-10-31T10:32:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/chip-based-optical-tweezers-manipulate-microparticles-and-cells-from-a-distance"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:32:17","slug":"chip-based-optical-tweezers-manipulate-microparticles-and-cells-from-a-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/chip-based-optical-tweezers-manipulate-microparticles-and-cells-from-a-distance","title":{"rendered":"Chip-based optical tweezers manipulate microparticles and cells from a distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chip-based-optical-tweezers-manipulate-microparticles-and-cells-from-a-distance3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chip-based tractor beam Integrated optical tweezers use an intensely focused beam of light to capture and manipulate biological particles without damaging the cells.<\/p>\n<p>Optical manipulation techniques are garnering increased interest for biological applications.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Optical manipulation techniques are garnering increased interest for biological applications. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rle.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a>) have now developed a miniature, chip-based optical trap that acts as a \u201ctractor beam\u201d for studying DNA, classifying cells and investigating disease mechanisms. The device \u2013 which is small enough to fit in your hand \u2013 is made from a silicon-photonics chip and can manipulate particles up to 5 mm away from the chip surface, while maintaining a sterile environment for cells.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>The promise of integrated optical tweezers<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Integrated optical trapping provides a compact route to accessible optical manipulation compared with bulk optical tweezers, and has already been demonstrated using planar waveguides, optical resonators and plasmonic devices. However, many such tweezers can only trap particles directly on (or within several microns of) the chip\u2019s surface and only offer passive trapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chip-based tractor beam Integrated optical tweezers use an intensely focused beam of light to capture and manipulate biological particles without damaging the cells. Optical manipulation techniques are garnering increased interest for biological applications. Optical manipulation techniques are garnering increased interest for biological applications. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now developed a miniature, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-tractor-beam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198613","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}