How would being able to move tiny things without touching them benefit the everyday person?

Question: How would being able to move tiny things without touching them benefit the everyday person?
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Asked by 09jandoos to Andrew on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research. This question was also asked by pixielover2.
- Andrew McKinley answered on 23 Jun 2010:
  
  It will benefit the everyday person because being able to pick up and move cells with lasers mean that we can look at alternative ways of handling stem cells – these are cells that can become any type of cells, so we might be able to grow someone a new organ with them – and this is how it would benefit the ‘man-in-the-street’. We are a few years from this yet, but we are developing a tool that has great promise for this in the future.

Question: How would being able to move tiny things without touching them benefit the everyday person?