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+-   Virtuosic scientists shatter virii with laser-> on Thursday November 01 2007, @09:29AM wattrlz

Submitted by wattrlz on Thursday November 01 2007, @09:29AM
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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."
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