One of the coolest modern medical innovations is the laparoscope, a slender rod with a camera tip that allows doctors to see inside a body during surgery. Laparoscopes have made surgery easier for ...

MIT is developing a way of doing so, though, that's inspired by origami. At the heart of the experimental new system are thin patches that are folded around the end of existing laparoscopic tools.

Helping make surgical tools so small that incisions will heal on their own -- without sutures BYU has licensed some of their origami-inspired technology to Intuitive Surgical, makers of the da Vinci ...

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