We perform two operations; first, we implant a nerve from the leg into the healthy side of the face to act as an ‘extension cord’ which connects to the paralyzed part of the face. Six months later, once the nerve has reached the paralyzed cheek, we remove a tiny thigh muscle and connect its blood vessels and nerve endings to the transplanted nerve in the healthy cheek. After an additional six months, the patient can smile.
-Yeah. He can smile all right...but he can't walk from all the chopping you've done on his leg!
-Give him the bill...that will allow you to see if he can also frown!
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It all started with a young PLO/Hamas Arab Muslim Nazi who suffered facial injury after being involved in a car accident. The complicated operation which Dr. Gur performed on the young man's face was a success. One year later he has full control over his facial muscles.
-It worked so well, that the first thing he did, was to sit up in his hospital bed and yell "Death to the Jews!"
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Sniffing out cancer
Dr. Hossam Haick, a lecturer and researcher in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and in the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute at Israel Institute of Technology, invented an electronic nose which can diagnose cancer. An invention that won him a 1.73 million euro grant from the European Union.
“When I was in medical school one of my friends was diagnosed with cancer. His illness got me thinking about developing tools to help diagnose and treat cancer. Electronic noses have been around since the 1980s but they were very big (about the size of a small fridge) and very expensive but not very accurate. I envisioned a smaller, cheaper device (about $500-$1000).
“My olfactory system can diagnose cancer by analyzing a person’s breath. It is able to distinguish between the different types of cancer
and infers what stage cancer it is. The ‘nose’ looks like a cellular phone with nano-size sensors and an electronic brain. The patient blows into the nose through a small pipe and the result is seen immediately on the screen. The sensors’ minute size – less than 100,000th of a hair – makes them extremely sensitive and thus are able to ‘smell’ the changes in the chemical composition of the exhaled breath, detecting the different characteristics of cancer. One can program the nose to sniff any given odor in the world.
-However, I first turned it on over at my own house.
-It registered "stench overload" and exploded into pieces!