A team of researchers at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have created a set of tiny ...

A surgeon used a Swiss army knife to cut open the chest of a patient in cardiac arrest because he claimed he could not find a sterile scalpel. The patient, who was treated at Royal Sussex County ...

scalpel and forceps, and a coil table with built-in electromagnetic coils that control their movement. “We can now replicate the wrist and hand movements of a surgeon on a centimeter scale ...

They work in much the same way as human fingers, which are manipulated by tendons in the hand connected ... by trained surgeons. We found the cuts made with the magnetic scalpel were consistent ...

We compared the performance of these magnetically operated tools with that of standard tools handled by trained surgeons. We found the cuts made with the magnetic scalpel were consistent and narrow, ...