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Japanese biotech firm Rakuten Medical wants to bring its novel ‘lightsaber’ cancer cure to the U.S.
Minami Maeda, CEO of Rakuten Medical, hopes he can get doctors to stop using their scalpels and try something more science-fiction instead.
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Minami Maeda, CEO of Rakuten Medical, hopes he can get doctors to stop using their scalpels and try something more science-fiction instead. “We’re essentially asking surgeons to put down their knives, and pick up this lightsaber,” he tells Fortune , referring to the company’s new technology that uses light as a way to treat cancer.
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