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Published online 30 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021230-1
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Living tissue made to order
Laser shoots out stream of cells to repair wounds.
Forget stitches, staples and glue - surgeons of the future could be closing incisions instantly with high-speed jets of living cells, according to research presented at the Materials Research Society meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, earlier this month.
By creating magazines of cells specific to different tissue types and a laser-based firing mechanism, Douglas Chrisey of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, and colleagues hope to one day instantly restore any tissue, be it skin, muscle, nerve or bone.
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