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Author Correction: Nanoscale optomechanical actuators for controlling mechanotransduction in living cells

Zheng Liu1, Yang Liu1, Yuan Chang1

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Nature Methods
|August 19, 2025
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