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🤖 “Star” operates “significantly better” than a human surgeon
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in the USA have built a robot, called Star, which can perform a surgical procedure entirely on its own. So far, the robot has only been allowed to operate on pig tissue, but it has done so with honor according to the...
🔬 Gynecological cell samples can detect breast and ovarian cancer
Healthcare routinely takes cell samples from the cervix to detect cervical cancer. But now, an international research team from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, among others, has developed a method they refer to as a WID test to use these samples also to identify the...
🦿 Complicated bone fractures can heal faster with “micro-robots”
Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden and Okayama University in Japan have developed a new method for treating complicated bone fractures and the inspiration comes from our fontanelles. There are gaps between the skull bones that are covered with soft...
🧬 New machine speeds up DNA sequencing – hours instead of weeks
Sequencing a patient's entire DNA and getting the results back can currently take doctors several weeks. But a new method developed by researchers at Stanford Medicine can cut that time to hours instead.The researchers use a new sequencing machine from Oxford...
