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Nanowires have cells in their sights

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The ability of 'electric tweezers' to guide nanowires coated with biomolecules to specific locations on the surface of individual cells will allow biological processes to be studied in greater detail.

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Figure 1: Time-lapse image showing a gold nanowire being moved by electric tweezers from its starting position at the bottom left of the frame to a cell at the top.

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  1. Andrew J. Hilmer and Michael S. Strano are in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. Strano@mit.edu,

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