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Laser Trapping a Phagosome inside a Cell

Caption: A phagosome transported inside a living cell by molecular motors is held by a laser trap. This allows measurement of the picoNewton forces exerted by motors as they haul the phagosome inside the cell.

Credit: Sukant Saran, TIFR

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