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Laser Surgery Goes Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the put-your-eye-in-the-disk-tray dept.

Ignat writes "Scientists in Australia successfully performed a laser surgery in a Southern California laboratory via the Internet. RoboLase, the new technology used showed that realtime surgeries can be performed from distant locations. Scientists from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland used RoboLase to produce surgical holes in a distinct pattern of less than one micron in diameter (1/1000th of a millimeter) in single cells."

2 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. i cant wait by penguinix · · Score: 5, Funny

    i can't wait for my doctor to be outsourced to India.

  2. laser surgery via internet and the Snow Crash... by wherrera · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, this means it won't be long before a computer worm can really, directly kill someone ;-/