{"id":209388,"date":"2025-03-21T06:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/optical-tweezers-reveal-cell-dynamics-in-milliseconds"},"modified":"2025-03-21T06:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T11:21:46","slug":"optical-tweezers-reveal-cell-dynamics-in-milliseconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/optical-tweezers-reveal-cell-dynamics-in-milliseconds","title":{"rendered":"Optical tweezers reveal cell dynamics in milliseconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/optical-tweezers-reveal-cell-dynamics-in-milliseconds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers will soon be able to study biological changes at scales and speeds not previously possible to significantly expand knowledge in areas such as disease progression and drug delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists at The University of Queensland have used \u201ctweezers made from light\u201d to measure activity within microscopic systems over timeframes as short as milliseconds. Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop from UQ\u2019s School of Mathematics and Physics said the method could help biologists understand what was happening within single living cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, they will be able to look at how a cell is dividing, how it responds to outside stimuli, or even how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> affect cell properties,\u201d Professor Rubinsztein-Dunlop said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers will soon be able to study biological changes at scales and speeds not previously possible to significantly expand knowledge in areas such as disease progression and drug delivery. Physicists at The University of Queensland have used \u201ctweezers made from light\u201d to measure activity within microscopic systems over timeframes as short as milliseconds. Professor Halina [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209388","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}