https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Of the many ways to treat cancer, the oldest, and maybe most tried and true, is surgery. Even with the advent of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and more experimental treatments like bacteria that seek and destroy cancer cells, cancers, very often, simply need to be cut out of a patient's body. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-laser-tool-bone-cancer.html Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:52:03 EDT news582825121 (HealthDay)—Excimer laser (308 nm) is efficacious for patients with chronic hand and foot eczema (CHFE), according to research published online Feb. 24 in the International Journal of Dermatology. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-03-excimer-laser-efficacious-chronic-foot.html Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:10:01 EST news376245073 (Medical Xpress)—Although in vivo microscopy is a vital tool for monitoring cellular and neurophysiological processes, preparing live animals for microsurgery has traditionally had several significant limitations – namely, it takes time, requires a great deal of skill, and places constraints on what can be experimentally accomplished. Recently, however, scientists at Stanford University devised a largely automated protocol that addresses these limitations, and can be used in both optical and electrophysiological studies, by employing a highly precise pulsed excimer UV laser. The researchers not only used fruit flies as a model, but also demonstrate their technique in nematodes, ants, and the mouse cranium. Moreover, they see their findings as being of great value in neuroscience for investigating neuronal plasticity, learning, and memory. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-11-visualize-automated-uv-laser-microsurgery.html Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:08:45 EST news304952892 University of Oregon scientists collaborating with an Oregon company that synthesizes antisense Morpholinos for genetic research have developed a UV light-activated on-off switch for the vital gene-blocking molecule. Based on initial testing in zebra-fish embryos, the enhanced molecule promises to deliver new insights for developmental biologists and brain researchers. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-added-gene-tool-view-cell.html Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:54:05 EDT news252752002