Researchers have created a magnetic tweezer system that could one day make it possible for doctors to do remote, non-invasive, highly precise medical procedures on their patients using a microrobot.

(a) and (b)Transparent and front views of the magnetic tweezer device. (c) Schematic of magnetic tweezer system. Credit: SMU Imagine if a doctor could remotely do a non-invasive, highly precise ...

Scientists used magnetic tweezers to reveal how the RNA molecule ‘NIHCOLE’ repairs cell damage, hindering cancer treatments such as radiotherapy. If you want to defeat an enemy, one strategy you can ...

Magnetic tweezers represent a robust tool for manipulating single molecules, offering the capability to apply and measure forces on individual biological macromolecules with high spatial and temporal ...

New research shows that a new class of antiviral drugs works by causing the virus' replication machinery to pause and backtrack, preventing the virus from efficiently replicating. This discovery, made ...