Making the paper: Scott Manalis.

The article focuses on the development of methods for making very sensitive measurements of biological molecules and nanoparticles by Scott Manalis and his group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Manali said that they wanted to develop methods for label-free detection that could be as sensitive as fluorescence. After three years, they came up with a vacuum-packaged resonator that could weigh individual nanoparticles, single bacteria and protein monolayers.