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Ablation of cytoskeletal filaments and mitochondria in live cells using a femtosecond laser nanoscissor

Nan Shen^1,2, Dabajyoti Datta¹, Chris B. Schaffer^1,3,4,5, Eric Mazur^1,6

1 Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and AppliedScience, Harvard University
2 Current address: Physical Biosciences Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
3 Current address: Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego
4 Vascular Biology Program, Departments of Pathology & Surgery, Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
5 Current address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
6 To whom the correspondence should be addressed. E-mail address: mazur@physics.harvard.edu