Impetux is a worldwide key manufacturer and supplier of turnkey optical tweezers systems designed for mechanobiology studies in living cells and 3D tissues.

Barcelona
Joined March 2015
We're at #EBSA2025 in Rome! 🏛️ Come find us and discover how SENSOCELL optical tweezers are enabling breakthroughs in single-cell mechanics and force spectroscopy. impetux.com/events/we-are-at…
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IMPETUX OPTICS S.L. retweeted
It has been a pleasure to present our work at the International Worm Meeting in Davis, California, with such an amazing audience! #worm25 #GSA @NMSBlab @IMPETUXOPTICS Enjoy our work: nature.com/articles/s41556-0…
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Every setup has an Okolab solution. Here is our #CageIncubator developed with @IMPETUXOPTICS, hosting their #Sensocell #opticaltweezers & maintaining the ideal environment for live cells in #Mechanobiology and #MolecularBiophysics. Tailored precision for advanced applications.
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Impetux is at @PhysicsofLifeUK – Physics of Life 2025 – in the UK! 🔬 In partnership with our UK distributor @photonlines, will be showcasing our SENSOCELL #opticaltweezers! 📍 Visit us at Booth 07 📅 Harrogate, UK | March 24-27, 2025
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📢 A new study identifies ELOVL6 as a promising therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer (PDAC)! 🧬Key insights thanks to the IMPETUX #opticaltweezers system! 📖Read more about this and explore our latest scientific publications here👇 impetux.com/communication/wi…
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🚨 Don’t miss our upcoming #webinar on Feb 26, 2025, 10-11 AM (CET) 🌟 A remote seminar hosted by @ISTAustria_IOF 🔬 Discover the power of #SENSOCELL optical trap in #microrheology Learn about its biological applications, from protein condensates to living cell mechanics.⬇️
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👉 Join us and explore cutting-edge research tools! 📅 Save your spot: ⬇️ impetux.com/?p=11885&preview…
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📢 Remember that our Sponsor Talk at @BiophysicalSoc Annual Meeting (LA) #bps2025 is today ! Monday, Feb 17 ⏰ 5:30–7:00 PM Room 404AB Come by and explore our cutting-edge optical tweezers solutions for cellular and molecular biophysics! 🧬 🔬 impetux.com/events/impetux-w…
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📢 New preprint about membrane tension propagation in neuronal axons. Here the authors use two-trap membrane nanorheology to measure the spatiotemporal distribution of membrane tension gradients with SENSOCELL. Congratulations! 👏
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📢 Discover how TIMSOM #microrheology and innovative #OpticalTweezers are unveiling novel disease indicators in aging animals! 🧬 Revolutionizing biomedical research with cutting-edge technology 🔬. Learn more: 👇 impetux.com/news/innovative-…
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The Imaging & Optics Facility team @ISTAustria wishes you a *happy New Year*:
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✨Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!✨ 2024 has been a great year for Impetux! We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to our journey, and we look forward to sharing more success together in the coming year. Wishing you all a holiday season full of joy and peace.
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From a stack of boxes 📦 , to a full spinning disk system build, to optical trap add-on to application training in just over 3 weeks: amazed with the company teamwork @NikonInst @IMPETUXOPTICS @CrestOptics and dedicated system implementation of IOF staff and ISTA machine shop🤩
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𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 #𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀: Here’s another experiment from our “membrane tethering” series, exploring axon membrane mechanics with #confocalmicroscopy and the #SENSOCELL #opticaltweezers system.
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💡 By testing at varying bead separations, we can map how force transmission decays over distance. 𝐈𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠?
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Special thanks to the @NMSBlab members Michael Krieg , Santiago Ortiz Vásquez and @fedcat_131 for providing this material and inspiration!
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