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Toothpaste that automatically coats, protects, even rebuilds tooth enamel; nanoscopic electronics; and maybe, someday, tiny robots capable of performing minor surgical procedures within the human body . . .

These are just a few of the cool technologies that are the focus of the AIP Industrial Physics Forum meeting in San Francisco this week.

Check out Jennifer Ouellette's reporting on the meeting in the Physics Today blog.
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  1. VMNovember 14, 2006 at 12:36 PM

    A tiny robot could then easily perform the dilation of a constricted blood vessel to the heart?
    -MV

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