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The technology uses optical tweezers, which use an extremely focused laser light that can trap and hold gold particles, and by turning the light up or down, control the heat. The gold nanoparticles are able to reach several hundred degrees at a light intensity of less than one watt. The heat source is well defined, and able to melt the lipids in a cell membrane \u2013 killing that cell, but only that cell. Anders Kyrsting, a PhD student in biophysics, who conducted the research along with his colleagues from the Optical Tweezers group, says &#8220;[T]he heat decreases so rapidly that at just a radius of a gold particle from the surface, the heat is half the temperature than it is at the surface. 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