{"id":571,"date":"2007-11-01T21:51:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T03:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=571"},"modified":"2007-11-01T21:51:02","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T03:51:02","slug":"zapping-virii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=571","title":{"rendered":"Zapping Virii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2007\/11\/laser_virus\">Cool<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A physicist and his biologist son destroyed a common virus using a superfast pulsing laser, without harming healthy cells. The discovery could lead to new treatments for viruses like HIV that have no cure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have demonstrated a technique of using a laser to excite vibrations on the shield of a virus and damage it, so that it&#8217;s no longer functional,&#8221; said Kong-Thon Tsen, a professor of physics at Arizona State University. &#8220;We&#8217;re testing it on HIV and hepatitis right now.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is such a good idea, I&#8217;ll have to steal it for a short story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool: A physicist and his biologist son destroyed a common virus using a superfast pulsing laser, without harming healthy cells. The discovery could lead to new treatments for viruses like HIV that have no cure. &#8220;We have demonstrated a technique of using a laser to excite vibrations on the shield of a virus and damage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zapping Virii<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-9d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}