November 1998
Welding Wounds
The science-fiction dream of laser healing is moving closer to reality.
By Rebecca Zacks
Ask anyone who knows about R. Rox Anderson's experiments with lasers and chances are you're going to hear the words "Star" and "Trek" in close proximity. Then again, lower-tech analogies, such as shipyards or auto-body shops, could also spring to mind. But this is not science fiction, and it's most definitely not conventional metalworking. Anderson works in the world of biology, and his aim is to weld wounds shut.
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