Laser Device Lets Biologists Immobilize and Move Cells

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 11, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Imagine some kind of futuristic ray gun that could be aimed from a distance to immobilize just one person in a moving crowd. What if the marksman could then move the immobilized person to another location simply by aiming the ray gun somewhere else?

Researchers at AT&T Bell Laboratories have developed just such a device, although it works on the microscopic scale and traps individual cells, allowing biologists, for example, to separate one bacterium from a swarm under the microscope.

The device-which uses a tiny, low-power, infrared laser beam-can even be focused on a single organelle ...

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