Researchers tug at molecules with optical tweezers
MIT researchers have developed a novel technique to measure the strength of the bonds between two protein molecules important in cell machinery: Gently tugging them apart with light beams.
They don’t really go into what’s novel about this. The optical tweezers technique has been around for a while.
Nothing in science news is as revolutionary as advertised.
yep, it’s an actin paper, really no new optical tweezers technique or ideas here.