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Monday, September 1, 2008

Does NOTES need mobile surgical tools? Is the ultimate goal to have a machine that a patient can swallow? Could we inject small structures that move and can do things on their own?

IIP > read on here > http://www.technologyreview.com…
A tiny handlike gripper that can grasp tissue or cell samples could make it easier for doctors […]

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