Plastic surgery today involves grisly incisions, painful recovery, and scar tissue that can last forever. Now, a chemist and a physician have come up with a way to take the knife out of some surgeries—a new method that uses mild electric pulses to soften tissue so it can be reshaped without cutting.
This week, at the semiannual national meeting of the American Chemical Society, they reported that the technique works on rabbit cartilage as well as the fibrous tissue in the cornea of the eye. In people, it might one day inspire procedures for fast, pain-free nose jobs or corrective vision repair.
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