{"id":548401,"date":"2018-11-19T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a4b7d377b18809c1bf1912935dec340e"},"modified":"2018-11-19T13:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T17:36:53","slug":"a-major-step-toward-non-viral-ocular-gene-therapy-using-laser-and-nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=548401","title":{"rendered":"A major step toward non-viral ocular gene therapy using laser and nanotechnology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2009, the life of engineer Michel Meunier, a professor at Polytechnique Montr\u00e9al, changed dramatically. Like others, he had observed that the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond laser could make nanometre-sized holes appear in silicon when it was covered by gold nanoparticles. But this researcher, recognized internationally for his skills in laser and nanotechnology, decided to go a step further with what was then just a laboratory curiosity. He wondered if it was possible to go from silicon to living matter, from inorganic to organic. Could the gold nanoparticles and the femtosecond laser, this &#8220;light scalpel,&#8221; reproduce the same phenomenon with living cells?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2009, the life of engineer Michel Meunier, a professor at Polytechnique Montr&eacute;al, changed dramatically. Like others, he had observed that the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond laser could make nanometre-sized holes appear in silicon when it was covered by gold nanoparticles. But this researcher, recognized internationally for his skills in laser and nanotechnology, decided to go a step further with what was then just a laboratory curiosity. He wondered if it was possible to go from silicon to living matter, from inorganic to organic. Could the gold nanoparticles and the femtosecond laser, this &#8220;light scalpel,&#8221; reproduce the same phenomenon with living cells?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548402,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548401\/revisions\/548402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}