University of Pennsylvania Student Creates Electric Tweezers; Now Everyone Can Have A Desktop Lab

PHILADELPHIA -- The ability to sort cells or manipulate microscopic particles could soon be in the hands of small laboratories, high schools and amateur scientists, thanks to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science. They have created a device, called “electric tweezers,” which can manipulate and move almost any object seen on a simple microscope slide.

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