News Human cell becomes living laser

[jason]

Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.
"Lasers started from physics and are viewed as engineering devices," says Seok-Hyun Yun, an optical physicist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who created the 'living laser' with his colleague Malte Gather. "This is the first time that we have used biological materials to build a laser and generate light from something that is living." The finding is reported today in Nature Photonics 1.


more Human cell becomes living laser : Nature News

 

[Winter]

That was an interesting article. Way over my head, but interesting! Especially when they were discussing the possible applications.

Does this mean I might someday be able to have lasers shoot out of my eyes?

 

[johnj1582]

i'm sorry, but i couldn't help but think "You can't be William Wallace! William Wallace is ten feet tall, and shoots LASERS from his eyes and lightning bolts from his arse" reading this.