Steven Block’s team at the Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC) is pioneering a new area of biology known as single-molecule biophysics. Underpinning that endeavour are laser-based optical tweezers (also known as optical traps) used to capture, measure and manipulate proteins and nucleic acids one molecule at a time.
Applying physics to biology: optical tweezers and single-molecule biophysics
01 Apr 2010