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Stitchless surgery to keep a child's heart beating /

March 30 -- Researchers at MIT's Karp Laboratories are developing a new kind of surgical adhesive gel. Strong enough to work inside a beating heart, the gel can quickly seal and bond tissues working with the body's natural healing process to form a permanent fix without sutures or staples....

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Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York : Bloomberg, 2015.
Series:Academic Video Online
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Children > Surgery > Research.
Heart > Surgery > Research.
Inventions.
Enfants > Chirurgie > Recherche.
Cœur > Chirurgie > Recherche.
Inventions
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Summary:March 30 -- Researchers at MIT's Karp Laboratories are developing a new kind of surgical adhesive gel. Strong enough to work inside a beating heart, the gel can quickly seal and bond tissues working with the body's natural healing process to form a permanent fix without sutures or staples. Bloomberg's Sam Grobat goes to MIT to find about this new breakthrough. (Video by Brandon Lisy, Justin Beach) (Music by Andy Clausen).
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed April 27, 2018).
Physical Description:1 online resource (4 min.)
Playing Time:00:04:28