{"id":193200,"date":"2024-07-20T04:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T09:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-tractor-beam-technology-could-one-day-minimize-biopsy-trauma"},"modified":"2024-07-20T04:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T09:23:46","slug":"new-tractor-beam-technology-could-one-day-minimize-biopsy-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-tractor-beam-technology-could-one-day-minimize-biopsy-trauma","title":{"rendered":"New tractor beam technology could one day minimize biopsy trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tractor-beam-technology-could-one-day-minimize-biopsy-trauma2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at TMOS, the ARC Center of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have taken an important first step in the development of metasurface-enabled tractor beams\u2014rays of light that can pull particles toward it, a concept that fictional tractor beams featured in science fiction are based on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at TMOS, the ARC Center of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, have taken an important first step in the development of metasurface-enabled tractor beams\u2014rays of light that can pull particles toward it, a concept that fictional tractor beams featured in science fiction are based on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-tractor-beam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}