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Picture shows the magnetic beads removed from girl's stomach in Hangzhou, Zhejiang in China, undated. She swallowed 61 magnetic beads. (Zhejiang Children's Hospital/AsiaWire)

Girl Who Swallowed 61 Magnetic Beads Has Intestines Perforated In 14 Places

Post author:Simona Kitanovska
Post published:December 14, 2022

Surgeons in China removed shocking 61 magnetic balls from a four-year-old girl's stomach who ended up with 14 holes in her intestine after accidentally swallowing the beads. The little girl,…

Doctors remove 74 magnetic beads from ten-year-old boy's bladder in Changsha, China. (Changsha Central Hospital/AsiaWire)

Surgeons Remove 74 Magnetic Beads From Boy’s Bladder

Post author:Lee Bullen
Post published:July 25, 2022

Surgeons have removed 74 magnetic beads from a 10-year-old boy's bladder after his parents brought him to hospital with agonising stomach pains. The boy - from Changsha, Hunan province, southern…

Left: Nanobots entering a dentinal tubule. Centre top and bottom: Schematic representation and electron microscope image of nanobot moving through dentinal tubule to reach bacterial colony. Right: How locally induced heat from nanobot can kill bacteria. Live bacteria are green and dead bacteria are red. Bottom right shows band where targeted treatment has been done in human teeth. (Theranautilus/Newsflash)

Tiny Bots Could Deep Clean Teeth, Say Experts

Post author:Michael Leidig
Post published:May 31, 2022

Nano-sized robots manipulated using a magnetic field can help kill bacteria deep inside teeth to ensure the success of root canal treatments after the living tissue has been removed. Root…