Sentences with phrase «manipulating tiny objects»

The laser beam the groups have dreamed up could drag an object the size of only a grain of salt or smaller, but experts say it could provide a new tool for manipulating tiny objects such as cells.

All of the squeezing glue bottles and manipulating tiny objects is fantastic fine motor practice.

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BEAMS of electrons can pick up and move tiny objects, just like optical tweezers that manipulate items using light.

But he and his colleagues were looking for new ways to manipulate and assemble tiny pieces of tissue using magnets — a much harder feat, he says, because for an object smaller than about 20 microns, «the magnetic force scales so much down that it couldn't lift its own gravitational weight.»