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New light shed on drug-delivery techniques

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have developed non- invasive methods of moving and manipulating biological cells using lasers, which could have important implications for future methods of drug-delivery.

Date
27 November 2003
Category
Research

A new twist in optical traps

CAPTION: A group of four particles rotated by the helical wavefronts of light in a Bessel light beam

Date
23 June 2003
Category
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