joegum
02-11-2007, 01:02 PM
"Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses
Posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @03:18PM
from the like-a-soprano-with-crystal dept.
Biotech Science
wattrlz writes "In a development reminiscent of nineteenth century pseudo-science, the father-son team of Kong Thon and Shaw Wei Tsen recently demonstrated that the tobacco mosaic virus can be destroyed in vitro by nano-scale mechanical resonant vibrations induced by repeated ultra-short pulses from a laser. The total energy required is reportedly far below the threshold for human tissue damage and the technique should generalize to human pathogens. Cleaning stored blood is one obvious application."
[+] biotech, science, laser, sharks, badsummary (tagging beta"
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1448257
Posted by kdawson on Thursday November 01, @03:18PM
from the like-a-soprano-with-crystal dept.
Biotech Science
wattrlz writes "In a development reminiscent of nineteenth century pseudo-science, the father-son team of Kong Thon and Shaw Wei Tsen recently demonstrated that the tobacco mosaic virus can be destroyed in vitro by nano-scale mechanical resonant vibrations induced by repeated ultra-short pulses from a laser. The total energy required is reportedly far below the threshold for human tissue damage and the technique should generalize to human pathogens. Cleaning stored blood is one obvious application."
[+] biotech, science, laser, sharks, badsummary (tagging beta"
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/1448257