With Optical 'Tweezers,' Researchers Pinpoint The Rhythmic Rigidity Of Cell Skeletons. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2003 / 12 / 031204073933.htm.

Optical tweezers can pinpoint organelles at a resolution of 0.5 microns. The resulting vibration of the cell part is 0.5 nanometers, a measurement that Ou-Yang's group makes with an innovative ...

And chefs favor tweezers over fingers as well as tongs, which are banned in some restaurant kitchens (too clumsy). Chefs say that tweezers started to appear in European restaurants in the mid-1990s.