Surgery

AI The future of surgery is learning from machines

AI systems are coaching medical students in surgery and could reshape health care and robotics in the years ahead.

Health 3D printing ‘glue gun’ heals fractures by printing living bone in real time Joshua Shavit

Health First-ever, pill-sized, bioprinter can be swallowed for surgery-free internal healing Shy Cohen

Health Autonomous microrobot sets new standard for precision surgery deep inside the body

Health Israeli scientists to perform the world’s first human spinal cord transplant surgery

Health Lifechanging cataracts treatment eliminates the need for surgery

Health Breakthrough light innovation could make surgery and biopsies unnecessary

Health Lifechanging rotator cuff treatment restores mobility and reduces reinjury risk

Health Breakthrough drug reverses groin hernias without surgery

Health Breakthrough artificial knee cartilage is more durable than natural tissue

Global Good 4,000-year-old skull reveals early attempts at brain cancer surgery

AI AI-powered robot learned to perform surgery by watching doctors work

Health Lifesaving antibody treatment could revolutionize heart transplants

Good News Medical breakthrough significantly increases success in harvesting donor organs post-mortem

Health World’s first successful voice box transplant helps patient talk again

Discoveries Michigan surgeons conduct first beating-heart transplants

Global Good 4,000-year-old skull provides evidence of early attempts at brain surgery to treat cancer