Weekly Wrap Up (May 6, 2016)

Could lasers be used to help treat Parkinson’s disease? According to researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan and University of Otago, New Zealand, the disease may be able to be treated by  “encapsulating dopamine within liposomes that can be released using a femtosecond (FS) laser.” The researchers believe that the findings may […]

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Einstein’s Involvement in Developing the Laser

  The year was 1905 when a German scientist first announced his very own theory about light. This physicist was the great Albert Einstein and he announced what later became known as his famous “quantum theory of light”. This particular is important to the development of the modern laser because within this theory Einstein stated […]

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