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Editorial |
A long overdue recognition
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Letter |
Promotion of protein crystal growth by actively switching crystal growth mode via femtosecond laser ablation
The protein crystal growth mechanism can be changed from planar 2D nucleation growth to spiral growth by femtosecond laser ablation. By using this method, the growth rate of a hen egg-white lysozyme crystal increases from 0.3 µm per day to 3.4 µm per day.
- Yusuke Tominaga
- , Mihoko Maruyama
- & Yusuke Mori
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Correspondence |
Reply to 'Mechanism for microtsunami-induced intercellular mechanosignalling'
- Justin C. Luo
- , Elliot L. Botvinick
- & Vasan Venugopalan
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Correspondence |
Mechanism for microtsunami-induced intercellular mechanosignalling
- Hao He
- , Keiichi Nakagawa
- & Keisuke Goda
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Article |
High-throughput optical screening of cellular mechanotransduction
A pulsed laser technique that induces mechanical stress in cells offers high-throughput testing of the effect of molecular agents on mechanotransduction in cells.
- Jonathan L. Compton
- , Justin C. Luo
- & Vasan Venugopalan
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Letter |
Optical trapping of an ion
It is well-known that neutral atoms can be trapped using visible light, but the trapping of ions is typically achieved using radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. Researchers have now developed an optical ion trapping technique that may be useful for applications ranging from quantum physics to ultracold chemistry.
- Ch. Schneider
- , M. Enderlein
- & T. Schaetz
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News & Views |
Trapping through turbid media
The aberrations induced by strongly scattering and turbid samples make optical trapping in such media impossible. Now, researchers in Scotland have overcome the problem using in situ aberration correction.
- Estela Martín-Badosa
Open-source browser-based software simplifies fluorescence correlation spectroscopy data analysis