USP Laser Shatters Capsids — Update
The ultra-short pulse laser antiviral research by Tsen & Tsen, discussed in the previous post, is gathering momentum. Already, two physicists at Arizona State University, Eric Dykeman and Otto Sankey, are modeling capsid vibrations, hoping that their theorectical calculations of capsid resonance will coincide with the resonance frequencies measured experimentally by KT Tsen at Arizona.
So far, Dykeman and Sankey’s model (currently based on the tobacco necrosis virus) predicts a capsid resonance frequency in the region of 60 to 90 GHz.
If capsid resonant frequencies can be determined for all viruses, there is a possibility that light pulses at the precise GHz rate can be used to shatter and destroy any virus, much in the same way that an opera singer can shatter glass if their voice is pitched exactly at the resonance vibration frequency of the glass.
February 12, 2008 at 9:38 am
The problem is that the microwaves has small penetration in our body, but we could use it for example to clean the blood for transfusion or maybe create a bypass with such filter using maser.
May 28, 2008 at 6:12 pm
clearing says : I absolutely agree with this !
May 28, 2008 at 6:32 pm
The laser itself is in the infra red light range, emitting at 850 nm wavelength. This infrared wavelength can penetrate into flesh by several inches (although currently they tune the laser frequency a bit higher than this by passing it through a frequency-doubler).
Do not confuse with the laser light frequency with the laser pulsing frequency: it is only the pulsing frequency which is in the microwave range. It is the pulsing frequency, not the laser light frequency, that is precisely tuned to the resonance frequency of the viral capsid.
November 28, 2008 at 7:02 pm
In 2006 I spoke before DODs ATACCC (advaned trauma & combat casualty care course) on the use of non-elementary resonance to denature or disrupt strategic viral protein necessary for virulence or viability. Subsequent to that I represented a collaboration of scientists in applying to Gates Foundation for resonant destruction of g41 fusion protein in HIV, a most vulnerable protein as seen in its conformational adaptation to facilitate T cell infection.
It is great to see Tseng & Tseng pioneer this work, but a brief review of Kuo-Chen Chou’s (The Gordon Life Science Institute) papers will provide a glimpse of the sophistication we can hope for in our future efforts. Disruption of infectious particles or virions en toto may be possible, but I suspect cancer cell lines may require a more sophisticated calculation of native frequency based on assembly profiles and length.
We are seeing the death knell of “The False Dogma of Drugs” in the physics of Tseng and Tseng. May they and their work gain the Nobel prize and live forever. Hail to physics in medicine and illness and injury as information abnormalities.
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