Human cell becomes living laser

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… Read more here

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