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| Technology Review: A piece of pig skin glows with laser light after being stimulated by an optical fiber. |
Topics: Biomedicine, Humor, Laser, Modern Physics, Optical Physics, Photonics, Research
Yes, you read the post title right, and it's referenced in the title of the article at Technology Review. The technique has also apparently been done with human samples. I could only grin as I know a few of my Jewish and Muslim friends and family members who probably wouldn't think of such a device as "kosher."
Researchers have made pig-skin lasers. Yes, pig laser beams.
The technology, outlined in a paper published today in Nature Photonics, showed that pumping light into fat cells could turn them into tiny, self-contained lasers.
The microlaser technique could afford scientists new ways to study and use cells, but mostly it’s just “very cool,” says Russ Algar, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who wasn’t involved in the work.
MIT Technology Review: Making Pig Fat into a Laser, Karen Weintraub
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