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Review – Raman tweezers and their application to the study of singly trapped eukaryotic cells

Review – Raman tweezers and their application to the study of singly trapped eukaryotic cells

Raman tweezers and their application to the study of singly trapped eukaryotic cells Richard D. Snook, Timothy J. Harvey, Elsa Correia Faria and Peter Gardner Integrative Biology 1 (2009) 43-52 Abstract In this review the recent emergence of Raman tweezers as an analytical technique for single eukaryotic cell analysis is described. The Raman tweezer technique combines Raman spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool with optical tweezers by which means single cells can be trapped and manipulated in a laser beam using…

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Noisy cells?

Noisy cells?

Discrimination of prostate cancer cells by reflection mode FTIR photo-acoustic spectroscopy Analyst  132 (2007) 292–295) attracted wide media attention giving rise to a number of articles in the popular press. For example: “Do Cell Make Noise?” By Corey Binns, Popular Science 28 Jan 2008, “Mikes Pick Up the Sound of Cancer” by Richard Grey, Sunday Telegraph 3 Feb 2008