ReviewJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2008
Optical tweezers for single cells.
Review in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 204 papers.
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Who cites it
204 citing papers in PubMed.
- Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- Acoustic Tweezers-Assisted Biomaterial Molding in Petri Dishes (TAMP) for Engineering Glioma Tissues With Controlled Cellular and Extracellular Matrix Architectures.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Selective photoacoustic handling of microparticles via annular laser beams.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Article
- Drop-Shaped Optical Microfiber Enabled Biomechanical Sensor.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- SmartTrap: automated precision experiments with optical tweezers.Nature methods · 2026Article
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- Red Blood Cell Deformability in Microfluidic Constrictions Under Flow and Wall Contact.Micromachines · 2026Article
- Unlocking Microbial Dark Matter: A Comprehensive Review of Isolation Technologies from Traditional Culturing to Single-Cell Technologies.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Single-cell vibration analysis for potential diagnostic applications.Biophysical reports · 2026Article
- Optical Tweezers in Emulsion Research: Principles, Advances, and Prospects.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2026Review
- Controlling the sign of optical forces using metaoptics.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Light force-powered cellular medical micromachines.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Laser-assisted microbial culturomics.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Spatially and Chemically Specific Optical Control of Cells via Supervised and Automated Target Selection.ACS photonics · 2025Article
- Determination of the Minimum Cell-to-Cell Adhesion Time Using Optical Tweezers in Leukemia and Lymphoma Research.Methods and protocols · 2025Article
- Morphometric effects of particulate air pollution on an optically trapped single red blood cell.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Harnessing optical forces with advanced nanophotonic structures: principles and applications.Discover nano · 2025Review
- A Review on AC-Dielectrophoresis of Nanoparticles.Micromachines · 2025Review
- Human Platelets in Intravenous Fluids Probed by Raman Tweezers Spectroscopy.Analytical chemistry · 2025Article
- Measuring interactions between Pickering emulsion droplets coated with casein-chitosan complex using optical tweezers.RSC advances · 2025Article
144 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Optical tweezers (OT) have emerged as an essential tool for manipulating single biological cells and performing sophisticated biophysical/biomechanical characterizations. Distinct advantages of using tweezers for these characterizations include non-contact force for cell manipulation, force resolution as accurate as 100aN and amiability to liquid medium environments. Their wide range of applications, such as transporting foreign materials into single cells, delivering cells to specific locations and sorting cells in microfluidic systems, are reviewed in this article. Recent developments of OT for nanomechanical characterization of various biological cells are discussed in terms of both their theoretical and experimental advancements. The future trends of employing OT in single cells, especially in stem cell delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, are prospected. More importantly, current limitations and future challenges of OT for these new paradigms are also highlighted in this review.
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