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Surgeons Weld Wounds Shut With Surgical Laser
Ruach writes "The promise of medical lasers goes beyond clean incisions and eye surgery: Many believe that lasers should be used not just to create wounds but to mend them too. Abraham Katzir, a physicist at Tel Aviv University, has a system that may just do the trick and is proving successful in its first human trials."
First, they had to determine the optimal temperature at which flesh melts but can still heal (about 65 degrees Celsius).
I don't envy the test subjects.
sharks with friggin lasers on their heads?
I mean the poor thing is going to keep biting and not understand why the pray wont die.
Cauterizing lasers, for the conscientious shark.
Breasts, I mean. This is going to be heavily used to close incisions of breast augmentation surgery. We shall lose a weapon in our arsenal of 'true-fake' wars.
We are doomed.
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What kind of rod does one use for that weld?
...they had lasers on the INSIDE beaming out when ever their flesh is pierced? You know, like having lasers in the blood.
How come Marvel didn't yet come up with such an awesome character?
Would such a combination make the character some kind of a weird Wolverine-Cyclops hybrid?
What would Jean Grey think about that?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Your Honour and Jury members,
I wasn't trying to cut the man in half with my laser, but only to sew him back together. I submit this slashdot article as evidence exhibit A.
If you take 110 Celsius saunas I salute your gonads. However sterilized they might be.