J024051 Trapping Cells under Fluid Flow with Optical Tweezers

Abstract

Cell manipulation with fluid flow is recently combined with optical tweezers for further precise manipulations. In that combined manipulation system, variety of cell types are manipulated, including yeast cells and stem cells. Although that combined systems allow variety of cells to be positioned precisely, laser power should be limited because of optical toxicity. In this study, minimum laser intensities which is required for trapping red blood cells were evaluated.