A physicist and his biologist son at the University of Arizona used a superfast pulsing (femtosecond pulses) laser to shatter the capsid of tobacco mosaic virus. They are now testing it on HIV and hepatitis, and hope to use it for cleaning blood supplies.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/11/laser_virus
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