Recent advances in magnetic tweezers

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 453-472

  De Vlaminck, Iwijn ^a   Dekker, Cees ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Highly multiplexed magnetic tweezers; Hybrid instruments; Magnetic tweezers instrumentation; Torque sensitive magnetic tweezers

Indexed keywords

DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

CAMERA; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC TWEEZER; MAGNETISM; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TORQUE; VIDEORECORDING;

DNA; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84861401482     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-122311-100544     Document Type: Review

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