The practice of surgically removing diseased or damaged tissue within the body is something of a trade-off – quite often, some of the surrounding healthy tissue will also end up being removed in the ...

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University and Saratov State University teamed up with colleagues from Taiwan and proposed to make a laser 'blade' for a medical scalpel with a specified curved shape ...

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A vasectomy is an outpatient male sterilization procedure that blocks sperm from reaching the semen. Whereas a standard vasectomy requires the surgeon to make two incisions in the scrotum, a ...