'Micro-Boxes' of Water Used to Study Single Molecules (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

'Micro-Boxes' of Water Used to Study Single Molecules

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Prodded by optical tweezers, two "hydrosomes" move together and fuse to mix their contents, in an experiment using water droplets as minuscule boxes for manipulating small numbers of biomolecules for nanobiochemistry.

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