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Article: 'Laser Tweezers' Permit Penn Researchers to Describe Microscopic Mechanical Properties of Blood Clots; Better Understanding of Clot Physiology Can Lead to More Effective Therapies.
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- June 23, 2005
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Byline: University of Pennsylvania Health System
PHILADELPHIA, June 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time ever, using "laser tweezers," the mechanical properties of an individual fiber in a blood clot have been determined by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Their work, led by John W. Weisel, PhD, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at Penn, and published in this week's early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provides a basis for understanding how the elasticity of the whole clot arises.
Clots are a three-dimensional network of fibrin fibers, stabilized by another protein ...