"Each year, thousands of Americans donate their bodies in the belief they are contributing to science. In fact, many are also unwittingly contributing to commerce, their bodies traded as raw material in a largely unregulated national market. Body brokers are also known as non-transplant tissue banks. They are distinct from the organ and tissue transplant … Continue reading Reuters Investigates “The Body Trade”
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UK Scientists Create World’s Smallest Surgical Robot to Start a Hospital Revolution
"For robots to revolutionise surgery, he said, they need to be versatile, easy to use and small so that surgical staff can move them around the operating room or between operating theatres, or pack them away when they are not being used. “Our robot does all of this and is the first robotic arm to … Continue reading UK Scientists Create World’s Smallest Surgical Robot to Start a Hospital Revolution
