Soft tissue moves, stretches and slides the moment a surgeon cuts it, which is exactly why handing a scalpel to a machine is so hard. A Johns Hopkins team now reports a robot that kept track of those changes and removed tumors from eight lab-made kidneys, making 77 cuts without a single error.
The result, announced by the Department of Mechanical Engineering on November 9, 2026, is a research milestone in a controlled setting. The kidneys were synthetic gel models, not patients, and the wor...
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Inexpensive, Portable Wound-Healing Device
A novel and inexpensive device known as the wound pump has been invented by Daielle Zurovcik, which is a portable wound-healing device.
This negative pressure pump helps to heal acute and chronic wounds, which will be affordable to low-income populations because it does not need electricity or batteries to operate and has a unique, simplified design.
After surgery a patient requires care for an amputated limb or the open wounds of a fractured bone. Vacuum pumps speed healing by removing ba...
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Live imaging reveals how wound healing influences cancer
"See-through" larvae of zebrafish reveal how wound healing leads to skin cancer.
Genetically modified larvae of zebrafish were studied by the researchers in the United Kingdom and Denmark to watch the relationship between wound-associated inflammation and melanoma.
The cellular events and changes were observed by live imaging with a special confocal laser-scanning microscope.
The experiments showed that neutrophils, the protective inflammatory cells of the body's immune system, gets d...
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