Nothing New Under the Sun?

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.

0 thoughts on “Nothing New Under the Sun?

  1. yep, it’s an actin paper, really no new optical tweezers technique or ideas here.