Optical Tweezers and understanding a disease.

Elliot Botvinick, at UC, Irvine utilizes optical tweezers to see how certain diseases take hold. The optical tweezers are capable of altering single molecules within a cell, which clearly is very useful. The research he is doing is expected to provide crucial information on the origins and workings of diseases including cancer.
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