Optical tweezers in cell biology

Observation of a single-beam gradient force optical trap for dielectric particles

1986 • 6,614 citations

Acceleration and Trapping of Particles by Radiation Pressure

1970 • 4,658 citations

Optical trapping and manipulation of single cells using infrared laser beams

1987 • 2,176 citations

Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Viruses and Bacteria

1987 • 2,062 citations

Forces of a single-beam gradient laser trap on a dielectric sphere in the ray optics regime

1992 • 1,623 citations

Bead movement by single kinesin molecules studied with optical tweezers

1990 • 1,018 citations

Force generation of organelle transport measured in vivo by an infrared laser trap

1990 • 520 citations

Compliance of bacterial flagella measured with optical tweezers

1989 • 436 citations

Lateral Movements of Membrane Glycoproteins Restricted by Dynamic Cytoplasmic Barriers

1991 • 250 citations

Noninvasive techniques in cell biology

1991 • 195 citations

Laser induced cell fusion in combination with optical tweezers: The laser cell fusion trap

1991 • 193 citations

Application of laser optical tweezers in immunology and molecular genetics

1991 • 114 citations

Preferential attachment of membrane glycoproteins to the cytoskeleton at the leading edge of lamella.

1991 • 90 citations

Noninvasive techniques in cell biology

1990 • 90 citations

Optical trapping in animal and fungal cells using a tunable, near-infrared titanium-sapphire laser

1992 • 84 citations

Compliance of bacterial polyhooks measured with optical tweezers

1991 • 76 citations

Experimental and theoretical investigations on the validity of the geometrical optics model for calculating the stability of optical traps

1991 • 66 citations

A model for kinesin movement from nanometer-level movements of kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein and force measurements

1991 • 51 citations

Laser Trapping, Spectroscopy, and Ablation of a Single Latex Particle in Water

1990 • 32 citations

Micromanipulation of mitotic chromosomes in PTK2 cells using laser-induced optical forces (“optical tweezers”)

1991 • 28 citations

An approach to reconstituting motility of single myosin molecules

1991 • 18 citations

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1991 • 7 citations