Medical Robotics To Improve Heart Surgery

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Medical Robotics To Improve Heart Surgery

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In a truly interdisciplinary effort, a team of biomedical scientists and engineers from the University of Houston (UH) and physicians from The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI) are col

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