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.
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Comment from anonymous
Time: July 1, 2008, 4:19 am
yep, it’s an actin paper, really no new optical tweezers technique or ideas here.
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Comment from Blake Stacey
Time: June 30, 2008, 7:47 pm
Nothing in science news is as revolutionary as advertised.