[rrock]

I also work with tweezers.

Back in my postdoc, we got a sample of purified melanosomes to work with. Melanosomes are small vesicles that hold pigment in your skin. Well, when we tried to trap them, we found that they absorbed the trap light, and turned it into heat. Enough to boil the sample.

We couldn’t do the experiment, obviously, but we did have a fun day playing Death Star, shooting every melanosome we could find.