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Life is Motion: Watching Tiny Cells Find their Way
Joshua Shaevitz
Biological cells of all types spend a great deal of time moving about in an attempt to find greener pastures. I will discuss some of our measurements of bacterial motility. In particular, I will try to highlight some of new techniques that we have developed for watching the motion of cells and proteins on scales from an angstrom up to hundreds of microns. These techniques include optical trapping and laser tracking but also newer methods for 3D optical imaging inside live cells.
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