Scientists in Germany have used a Ti:sapphire laser to transfer DNA into a cell. Femtosecond lasers improve the transfer of DNA into cells and could advance the fields of gene therapy and DNA vaccination, according to Uday Tirlapur and Karsten König of Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (U Tirlapur and K König Nature 418 290).
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