Measurements of forces produced by the mitotic spindle using optical tweezers

Development of a dual joystick-controlled laser trapping and cutting system for optical micromanipulation of chromosomes inside living cells

(2012) Marcellinus S. Harsono et al.   Journal of Biophotonics

Do nuclear envelope and intranuclear proteins reorganize during mitosis to form an elastic, hydrogel-like spindle matrix?

(2011) Kristen M. Johansen et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Control of Mitotic Spindle Length

(2010) Gohta Goshima et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Real-Time Monitoring of Cell Elasticity Reveals Oscillating Myosin Activity

(2010) Hermann Schillers et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Precocious (pre-anaphase) cleavage furrows in Mesostoma spermatocytes

(2010) Arthur Forer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Analysis of DNA double-strand break response and chromatin structure in mitosis using laser microirradiation

(2010) Veronica Gomez-Godinez et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Force and Length in the Mitotic Spindle

(2009) Sophie Dumont et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cell nanomechanics and focal adhesions are regulated by retinol and conjugated linoleic acid in a dose-dependent manner

(2009) Yaron R Silberberg et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Both actin and myosin inhibitors affect spindle architecture in PtK1 cells: does an actomyosin system contribute to mitotic spindle forces by regulating attachment and movements of chromosomes in mammalian cells?

(2009) Judith A. Snyder et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Mitosis: spindle evolution and the matrix model

(2009) Jeremy Pickett-Heaps et al.   PROTOPLASMA

The use of optical tweezers to study sperm competition and motility in primates

(2007) J. M Nascimento et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface