Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Rotational manipulation of single cells and organisms using acoustic waves

  • Daniel Ahmed,
  • Adem Ozcelik,
  • Nagagireesh Bojanala,
  • Nitesh Nama,
  • Awani Upadhyay,
  • Yuchao Chen,
  • Wendy Hanna-Rose,
  • Tony Jun Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11085
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The precise rotational manipulation of single cells is technically challenging and relies on the optical, magnetic and electrical properties of the biospecimen. Here the authors develop an acoustic-based, on-chip manipulation method that can rotate single microparticles, cells and organisms.