Need to fix a hole in someone’s heart without opening up their chest? It might sound like something put together by the A-Team, but you could do it with a contraption made from two balloons, a flexible mirror, a fibre-optic cable and a special repair patch pre-coated with light-activated glue.
Ellen Roche at Harvard University and her colleagues developed the elaborate tool for delivering glue to internal organs through keyhole incisions, making it possible to repair tissue defects with minimal trauma.
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