Combating these dangers is going to take some inventive solutions, and researchers in Israel have demonstrated an example of this type of thinking with a set of "molecular tweezers" that can pick ...

100% Free. No Spam. Unsubscribe any time. The tweezers' arms are about 3 millimetres long, with fine tips able to grasp cells just 10 micrometres across. In trials using pig heart cells, the pincer ...

Nano grip Researchers have built the world's smallest tweezers, capable of picking up a single virus or molecule. The device could be a boon for scientists who want to manipulate biological ...

For the first time, engineers built optical tweezers capable of grabbing individual biomolecules and proteins without damaging them — a vast improvement to the technology. The new nanotweezers ...

They’re also flailing in front of sensors, but it’s not Dance Central 3; they’re manipulating real-life microscopic objects with a set of laser tweezers. David McGloin and his team at ...

Using a three-fingered model, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and iRobot, have released a robotic hand that is able to pick up a 50-pound weight, utilize a small set of keys ...