Magnetic tweezers articles within Nature Methods

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• Research Highlights | 29 June 2016

  Miniature magnetic force probes

  Magnetoplasmonic nanoparticles can manipulate cell surface receptors with single-molecule precision to clarify the effects of force application and receptor clustering.

  • Nina Vogt

• Article | 23 February 2014

  Gold rotor bead tracking for high-speed measurements of DNA twist, torque and extension

  Single-molecule structural transitions involving DNA twisting can be measured with substantially greater spatiotemporal resolution than previously possible with a gold rotor bead tracking (AuRBT) method. This approach uses magnetic tweezers and evanescent darkfield microscopy to track a gold nanoparticle probe attached to a DNA molecule.

  • Paul Lebel
  • , Aakash Basu
  •  & Zev Bryant

• News & Views | 27 March 2012

  Magnetic sequencing

  Single-molecule DNA sequencing takes an important step in a surprising new direction with a sequence-detection method based on magnetic tweezers.

  • Sten Linnarsson

• News in Brief | 29 September 2011

  Freely orbiting magnetic tweezers

• Brief Communication | 17 October 2010

  Magnetic torque tweezers: measuring torsional stiffness in DNA and RecA-DNA filaments

  Magnetic torque tweezers are used to directly measure the torsional stiffness of single molecules of bare DNA and RecA filaments.

  • Jan Lipfert
  • , Jacob W J Kerssemakers
  •  & Nynke H Dekker