$1.6 million NIH grant brings new LUMICKS C-TrapⓇ “supermachine” to SMART Center core, combining optical tweezers with STED fluorescence microscopy
BY PAUL AVEDISIAN The Single Molecule Analysis in Real-Time (SMART) Center, one of two shared-use core facilities of the Center for RNA Biomedicine at the University of Michigan, has been awarded a $1.6 million instrument grant from the National Institutes of Health for a LUMICKS C-TrapⓇ optical tweezers machine with super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, marking a…