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The world’s first spinal cord transplant has been performed in Russia

A surgeon has told New 精东传媒 they have performed a transplant on someone with a complete spinal cord injury using a piece of spinal cord from a brain-dead donor, but researchers have raised concerns

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Noise-cancelling headphones prevent vomiting after surgery

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The scaffolds, which are filled with fat from elsewhere in the body

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Breast-augmentation method uses your own fat in dissolving scaffolds

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Heart surgery cured a man鈥檚 skin cancer 鈥� and gave him a bee allergy

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Thousands of people in China have had banned Alzheimer’s surgery

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A false-colour X-ray showing a large neural tube defect (red) on both sides of the lower back in someone with spina bifida

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Stem cell patch reverses brain damage in fetuses with spina bifida

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Magnetic gel could remove kidney stones more effectively

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A modified hot glue gun can mend broken bones

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The sinuses

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Go-to therapy for chronic sinus condition doesn’t work that well

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Technology

Surgical robots take step towards fully autonomous operations

An AI system trained on videos of operations successfully guided a robot to carry out gall bladder surgery on a dead pig, with minimal human assistance

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Gastric bypass surgery may cut the risk of bowel cancer

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How we could achieve dog-level sense of smell 鈥� and what it would mean

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Listening to music after surgery seems to be an effective painkiller

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First ever US kidney transplant performed on an awake patient

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