Femtosecond Laser Shatters Viruses

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."

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TINY VIRUS SIZED WARNING

[LiquidCoooled]

Do not look into the femtosecond laser with your remaining Capsid.

(and you thought I was gonna say eye...)