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How to perform brain surgery without making a single cut - Hyunsoo Joshua No

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Every year, tens of thousands of people have brain surgery without a single incision: there’s no scalpel, no operating table, and the patient loses no blood. Instead, this procedure uses a machine that emits invisible beams of light at a precise target inside the brain. So how exactly does this treatment work? And what does it do to the tumors it targets? Hyunsoo No explains radiosurgery.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Hyunsoo Joshua No
Director
Luísa Holanda
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Storyboard Artist
Luísa Holanda
Animator
Maurício Canterle, Felipe Urbanetto
Compositor
Gabriel Maia
Art Director
Luísa Holanda
Sound Designer
Gabriel Maia
Music
Gabriel Maia
Hype Executive Producer
Gabriel Garcia
Hype Line Producer
Taíla Soliman
Director of Production
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Director
Alex Rosenthal
Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Script Editor
Emma Bryce
Fact-Checker
Eden Girma

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