> A SNIP WITHOUT SNIPS > Nathaniel Fried is a man who restores one's faith in nominative > determinism - the notion that a person's choice of career is somehow > dictated by their surname. The researcher at Johns Hopkins Medical > School in Baltimore, Maryland, has discovered that by firing a pulse of > ultrasound at the male scrotum, he can perform a permanent vasectomy > without making any incisions at all. Five watts of ultrasound briefly > administered by a specially shaped transducer can heat the vas deferens > - the tubes that carry sperm from the testicles into the urethra - to > over 50 degrees Celsius. This kills cells in the tube wall, which > coagulate and obstruct the tube. "You are essentially cooking the > tissue," says Dr Fried.
So basically they've found a way to reproduce the effect of standing in front of a microwave (or any high-powered RF transmitter) and control the radiation pattern. Hatton . ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
