"Optical Tweezers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A technique that uses LASERS to trap, image, and manipulate small objects (biomolecules, supramolecular assembles, DENDRIMERS) in three dimensional space. (From Glossary of Biotechnology and Nanobiotechnology Terms, 4th ed.)
| Descriptor ID |
D052898
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.650
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| Concept/Terms |
Optical Tweezers- Optical Tweezers
- Optical Tweezer
- Tweezer, Optical
- Tweezers, Optical
- Optical Trapping
- Trapping, Optical
- Laser Tweezers
- Laser Tweezer
- Tweezer, Laser
- Tweezers, Laser
- Optical Trap
- Optical Traps
- Trap, Optical
- Traps, Optical
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Optical Tweezers" by people in this website by year, and whether "Optical Tweezers" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2007 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2008 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2009 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2010 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2013 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Optical Tweezers" by people in Profiles.
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High-Speed Optical Traps Address Dynamics of Processive and Non-Processive Molecular Motors. Methods Mol Biol. 2022; 2478:513-557.
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Inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm-forming functional amyloid by molecular tweezers. Cell Chem Biol. 2021 09 16; 28(9):1310-1320.e5.
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Nanophotonic Platforms for Chiral Sensing and Separation. Acc Chem Res. 2020 03 17; 53(3):588-598.
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Activation of PKA via asymmetric allosteric coupling of structurally conserved cyclic nucleotide binding domains. Nat Commun. 2019 09 04; 10(1):3984.
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Characterizing Deformability of Drug Resistant Patient-Derived Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) Cells Using Acoustic Tweezers. Sci Rep. 2018 10 24; 8(1):15708.
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Positive cardiac inotrope omecamtiv mecarbil activates muscle despite suppressing the myosin working stroke. Nat Commun. 2018 09 21; 9(1):3838.
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Switching of the folding-energy landscape governs the allosteric activation of protein kinase A. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 08 07; 115(32):E7478-E7485.
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Probing Mitotic CENP-E Kinesin with the Tethered Cargo Motion Assay and Laser Tweezers. Biophys J. 2018 06 05; 114(11):2640-2652.
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Magnetic Nanotweezers for Interrogating Biological Processes in Space and Time. Acc Chem Res. 2018 04 17; 51(4):839-849.
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Sprouting angiogenesis induces significant mechanical heterogeneities and ECM stiffening across length scales in fibrin hydrogels. Biomaterials. 2018 04; 162:99-108.