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Surgeons Weld Wounds Shut With Surgical Laser

Posted by samzenpus on from the amazing-laser dept.

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."

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  1. Optimal Temperature by cjfs · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. The end of natural by tzot · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  3. What if... by denzacar · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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?

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