September 26, 2006
Surgery in Space?
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A team of French doctors will operate on a patient under near-weightless conditions on Wednesday, in what they hope will be a step toward performing surgery in space. The 3-hour procedure involves the removal of a fatty tumor from a volunteer's forearm and will be conducted aboard a modified Airbus designed to simulate weightlessness. It is part of a project backed by the European Space Agency that aims to develop Earth-guided surgical space robots.
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