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A surgeon in virtual reality

Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations

31 March 2018

A virtual reality simulator for training junior surgeons seems to make them better equipped to cut open real patients
GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

30 March 2018

Thanks to a spot of genetic hacking, silkworms can make a new form of silk not found in nature that includes a synthetic amino acid. It could be used in medicine

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