Hundreds of tiny untethered surgical tools deployed in first animal biopsies
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 14:45
in Health & Medicine
Using swarms of untethered grippers, each as small as a speck of dust, engineers and physicians have devised a new way to perform biopsies that could provide a more effective way to access narrow conduits in the body as well as find early signs of cancer or other diseases.