Software Module for Optical Tweezers

The Force Measurement module of the Palm Robosoftware enables the quantitative measurement of the forces of microscopic specimens with the Palm Microtweezers from Carl Zeiss. The new module allows users in the fields of life sciences, materials sciences and pharmacy to measure cell elasticity, molecular binding properties or plasma membrane features of biological specimens, for example. The intuitive and flexible user interface ensures easy operation of the Force Measurement module. Users can define their own test configurations. The module also enables the use of the system for pure specimen manipulation as well as for position detection and quantitative force measurement so that direct comparisons of the measuring results with data from trade literature are now possible.