User:Anthony Salvagno/Notebook/Research/2009/12/16/Tethering and Unzipping with Igor

Tethering
I made 2 samples. The first I labeled small and contained the same beads I normally use. The second I labeled big and was beads that Igor made me. These are uncoated Silica beads that range in size from 1-3um. Igor wanted to see if we would get tethers by chance. It turned out that these beads are too large to tell if they do tether as their motion is slow and there isn't as much brownian noise as there is with the 0.5um beads. Also identifying tethers is easier in Evans's lab because they have a 100x magnification objective.

Unzipping
I will be working with Igor and I will post any results here if I achieve anything. I will post some comments afterward as well. I need an iPhone, or even better this.