Acoustic tweezers maneuver tiny creatures/single cells using ultrasound.
Yea, go Penn State biochemists and bioengineers!
Contributors to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) paper, “On-chip Manipulation of Single Microparticles, Cells, and Organisms Using Surface Acoustic Waves,” are
Xiaoyun Ding, Sz-Chin Steven Lin, Brian Kirby, Hongjun Yue,Sixing Li, Jinjie Shi, Stephen J. Benkovic, and Tony Jun Huang.
Funding provided by National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health.
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Imagine. What problems could YOU solve with this?
Reblog your answer.
