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Nano mechanics of the cell PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 24 August 2007

ImageHow strong is an individual living cell? How is it moving and deforming? How can the cell fulfil its mechanical tasks? How is it communicating with its environment? The answer to such questions can be found in the interface between physics, cell biology and molecular biology – an internationally strongly growing research field. In this article we will focus on the first of the questions asked above. We demonstrate how physical methods are applied to the investigation of mechanical properties of a living cell.

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Conten List: Optical Tweezer PDF Print E-mail
Written by Heiko Seeger   
Friday, 24 August 2007
One of the aims of xscience.info is to provide also articles from experts from a variety of biophysical research fields. In this series xscience.info is glad to be able to publish articles from researchers applying optical tweezer.
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