{"id":89162,"date":"2019-04-02T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/molecular-surgery-reshapes-living-tissue-with-electricity-but-no-incisions"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:02:20","slug":"molecular-surgery-reshapes-living-tissue-with-electricity-but-no-incisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/molecular-surgery-reshapes-living-tissue-with-electricity-but-no-incisions","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Molecular surgery\u2019 reshapes living tissue with electricity but no incisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/molecular-surgery-reshapes-living-tissue-with-electricity-but-no-incisions3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traditional surgery to reshape a nose or ear entails cutting and suturing, sometimes followed by long recovery times and scars. But now, researchers have developed a \u201cmolecular surgery\u201d process that uses tiny needles, electric current and 3D-printed molds to quickly reshape living tissue with no incisions, scarring or recovery time. The technique even shows promise as a way to fix immobile joints or as a noninvasive alternative to laser eye surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will present their results today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Spring 2019 National Meeting &amp; Exposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe envision this <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+technique\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new technique<\/a> as a low-cost office procedure done under local anesthesia,\u201d says Michael Hill, Ph.D., one of the project\u2019s principal investigators, who will discuss the work at the meeting. \u201cThe whole process would take about five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-molecular-surgery-reshapes-tissue-electricity.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;04-molecular-surgery-reshapes...icity.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional surgery to reshape a nose or ear entails cutting and suturing, sometimes followed by long recovery times and scars. But now, researchers have developed a \u201cmolecular surgery\u201d process that uses tiny needles, electric current and 3D-printed molds to quickly reshape living tissue with no incisions, scarring or recovery time. The technique even shows promise [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}