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MIT Engineers Create a Chip-Based Tractor Beam for Biological Particles
October 04, 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 4 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells.

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By Adam Zewe, MIT News

MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based "tractor beam," like the one that captures the Millennium Falcon in the film "Star Wars," that could someday help biologists . . .

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