Laser Scissors and Tweezers
Researchers are using lasers to grasp single cells and tinier components in vises of light while delicately altering the held structures. These lasers offer new ways to investigate and manipulate cells
Laser Surgery
Precise, powerful and at times subtle in their effects, lasers are increasingly important medical tools. These knives of light can be used to treat individual cells as well as whole organs
Cell Surgery by Laser
The properties of laser light make it possible to conveniently focus it to an intense spot .0005 millimeter in diameter. This spot is small enough to produce lesions in individual organelles of the living cell