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."

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So Trek's closing-wounds-with-beams thing is real?

[Michael_gr]

Now that is a surprise. That always struck me as funny, the way they just beamed at some wound and it closed.