Physicist Daniel Erenso talks with journalist Gina Logue about his, and his undergraduate students’, research into Sickle Cell Anemia by exploring the manipulation of living hemoglobin cells using “Laser Tweezers”. One of the only programs in the nation where undergrads can co-author peer reviewed scientific papers before entering graduate school, the experimental research is producing ground breaking work in understanding the components and manipulation of living cells. Watch a cell explode like a miniature firework display in real time.