egarrard
12-28-2004, 12:44 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4083557.stm
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Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
In an endoscopy, a long flexible tube is fed into the body. It can be very uncomfortable.
But a team from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, found the ragworm, which lives in seashores, could offer a model for a more comfortable test.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40618000/jpg/_40618901_ragworm203.jpg
Scientists are developing a new way of carrying out internal examinations on patients - based on a wriggling worm.
In an endoscopy, a long flexible tube is fed into the body. It can be very uncomfortable.
But a team from the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, found the ragworm, which lives in seashores, could offer a model for a more comfortable test.