Thanks to sound waves, scientists don’t even need hands anymore

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  • Researchers from Duke University have developed a new kind of 'acoustic tweezers' that allows for the manipulation of tiny objects in a Petri dish without using your hands.
  • Systems like this are typically very complicated and have not seen widespread use.
  • The researchers hope to make their system simple and affordable enough to commercialize it.

Dabbling in Petri dishes has resulted in countless new discoveries for science, but you know what would make the process even better? Not having to use your hands. At least that's the idea behind new "acoustic tweezers" being developed by scientists at Duke University. The system uses sound waves to move particles and other tiny things, like cells, without a scientist having to physically manipulate them.

The idea of using sound waves in such a way is not entirely new, but up until now, such systems have required lots of equipment and training on the part of the researchers using them. The system that Duke has developed will hopefully lower the barrier to entry.

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