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1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby Street, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
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The electric fields of tightly focused laser beams can be strong enough to apply appreciable force to microscopic objects, including biological entities such as cells, bacteria, and even viruses and biomolecules [...].

