Scientists Arm Cells With Tiny Lasers 35
sciencehabit writes: Scientists have implanted tiny lasers within living cells. A team of physicists and biologists have coaxed a cell to envelop a tiny plastic sphere that acts like a resonant cavity—thus placing a whole laser within a cell (abstract). The spheres are seasoned with a fluorescent dye, so that a zap with one color of light makes them radiate at another color. The light then resonates in the sphere, triggering laser action and amplifying itself. So although demonstrated only in cultured cells, the technique might someday be used to track the movement of individual cells, say, within cancerous tumors.
Frickin' Lasers! (Score:5, Funny)
Come on people! All I wanted were some cells with frickin' lasers on them!
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I was just going to say, "you've got a homicidal cell roaming your body and you're giving it a laser?!"
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They're shark cells, right?
Re: Frickin' Lasers! (Score:1)
That's ridiculous, they're stem cells that can turn into sharks.
Get with the frickin program here.
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All we need to do now is scale up to sharks.
This is amazing! (Score:1)
I SO picked the wrong career. I sit at a keyboard all day writing loop after loop to process lists in accordance with an endless litany of business rules....when I could have been implanting microscopic lasers into single-celled organisms!!!
Damn. I wonder if I am too old to go back to school.
All I ask is some multi-cellular sharks (Score:2)
Heck, at this point I'd settle for some GMO-mutated sea bass ...
cellular 2nd (Score:3)
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Self laser hair removal? The right to bare arms? (and legs, and ...)
Well I for one... (Score:2)
...welcome our unicellular laser-toting overlords.
Not sure how to welcome them, though.
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Not sure how to welcome them, though.
Maybe we should have our Amibo welcome them with open arms?
Auto playing youtube ads (Score:5, Interesting)
Okay, I've been willing to put up with ads on Slashdot for many years. I've never taken advantage of the 'turn off ads' feature for subscribers. But the auto-playing Youtube ads that I'm getting today are crashing browser tabs, they're occasionally scrolling my browser up to the top of the page and interrupting my reading [and my writing--typing this comment was interrupted by shittyness from the video ad], and they're causing pages to have to continue to load occasionally after they've already loaded. I'm glad I have my sound muted by default.
Fuck you, Slashdot, I'm browsing you with adblock from now on.
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Yah, same here. I thought "hey, I don't mind providing a bit of monetization for them to bring Slashdot into my living room", but I experienced the same issues as you. So, off it goes.
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I've been a faithful reader for over a decade, but Slashdot has become actively offensive in terms of the ads and the effects on my browser and browsing experience. I can no longer ignore the bullshit I have to wade through to read stories here.
So yes, Adblock is now on and it will stay on. If I want to be pestered and annoyed as I browse the web, I'll go to 4chan or some other kiddie-crap site.
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I have never installed an ad blocker before, but Slashdot drove me to install ABP! Just couldn't take the random scrolling to the top of the page while reading comments. Although, not that I have added an ad blocker I may never go back...
Eyeball lasers (Score:3)
Not to shoot out of them. To produce images in them.
At least one piece of science fiction I've read has eyeball lasing cells in it. Now it seems less fictional.
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Advertisers will be all over this technology.
Warning: (Score:4, Funny)
Light - Laser (Score:1)
Arm my leukocytes! (Score:2)
One step closer! (Score:1)
That's nice and all, but⦠(Score:2)
Where are our promised "sharks with frikken' lasers"?
The people demand answers!