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  • A Laser That Heals Surgeons' Incisions

    02/14/2009 4:35:21 PM PST · by Reaganesque · 21 replies · 1,470+ views
    MIT Technology Review ^ | 2/11/09 | Lauren Gravitz
    Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Irene Kochevar and Robert Redmond have developed a method that has the potential to replace the surgeon's needle and thread. Using surgical lasers and a light-activated dye, the researchers are prompting tissue to heal itself. Laser-bonded healing is not a new idea. For years, scientists have been trying to find ways to use the heat generated by lasers to weld...
  • Cow cut, drained in Arborg: Mutilation mystifies

    05/01/2004 5:57:00 AM PDT · by Momaw Nadon · 105 replies · 4,851+ views
    The Winnipeg Sun ^ | Thursday, April 29, 2004 | NATALIE PONA
    An Arborg cattle farmer made a horrific discovery Monday when he found the partially skinned carcass of one of his animals that was missing its tongue and apparently drained of its blood. "The whole thing has turned out to be more sinister than I thought," said Yvonne, a neighbour, who examined the mutilated animal. She asked not to have her last name used to protect her family. "What sort of weirdos have we got travelling in our neighbourhood?" Gordon, who would only allow The Sun to print his first name, said he discovered the carcass on his farm Monday afternoon....