University of Basrah discusses the siege of live red sickle cells using laser

College of science at university of Basrah organized a seminar ((siege live sickle cell corpuscles using laser to study the effect of hydroxyurea on the susceptibility of changing the shape of the cell)). Where the researcher Anmmar Ali Hussain presented Optical trapping technique using a laser beam to study the optical properties and Change the shape of the red blood cell.

He explained also that the basis of this technique is to siege the red blood cell by the power of the radiation pressure using a single laser beam by Take pictures of red blood cells. In this experiment, samples from patients with sickle cell anemia and who are not infected with this disease are present in the laboratory of the medical hospital and transferred to the physics laboratory where the laser system exists to complete the elongation of individual red blood cells.