Using a Magnetic Resonance Machine to Operate Inside a Medical Scanner

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A new robotic device that can operate inside of a medical scanner could pave the way for mri guided robotic surgery. Ancient genomes from pompei could help to reconstruct the genetic history of an ancient roman city frozen in time. And how correctin misperceptions increased covid vaccine uptake in the check public. You also heard from raphael hostetler of devanthro germany, woling to their paper in the show notes,. as well as a vilio made by charmony in which you can see the shoulder in action coming up.

00:47 The robot shoulder that exercises cells

Recreating the movements that tendon cells experience as they develop in the human body is necessary for growing tissue for transplantation, but this has been difficult to achieve in a laboratory setting. Now, a team has developed a system that uses a robot shoulder to stretch and twist these cells, which they hope could be used to improve the quality of tissue grafts in the future.

Research article: Mouthuy et al.

Video: A robotic Petri dish: How to grow human cells in a robot shoulder

07:56 Research Highlights

A robotic surgeon that works within an MRI chamber, and an ancient human genome from a resident of Pompeii.

Research Highlight: Robot surgeons steer smoothly with help from magnet-free motor

Research Highlight: Vesuvius victim yields first human genome from Pompeii

10:30 Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Identifying sources of vaccine hesitancy is a key challenge in public health. This week, a team show that correcting misperceptions about doctor’s COVID-19 vaccine views increased vaccination rates in the Czech Republic. The team suggest this finding could extend to other countries, and represents a cost-effective intervention for reducing vaccine hesitancy.

Research article: Bartoš et al.

News and Views: Give physicians’ views to improve COVID vaccine uptake

16:21 Briefing Chat

We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, where metals are lost during their economic lifetime, and how pesticide use has spurred cockroach evolution and even affected their mating habits.

Nature News: Metal-lifespan analysis shows scale of waste

New York Times: Cockroach Reproduction Has Taken a Strange Turn

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