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This isn’t sci-fi — it’s real science. The future of fracture care starts now.

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Bioelasticity: How Scientists Heal and Repair the Body Using its Elastic Properties

Bioelasticity: How Scientists Heal and Repair the Body Using its Elastic Properties

Bioelasticity is the measure of stretchability of our body’s tissues and organs. And it is leading a wave of promising biological and medical research. © Masterfile Royalty-Free Elastic fibres are present everywhere in the body and help us with vital activities including breathing and eating. Pinch your skin and, depending on your age, it will snap back quickly or more slowly. After the age of 20…

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Slimy Slugs

A team of scientists from Harvard University (Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering) have engineered a bio-glue from the defensive mucus secreted by Dusky Arion slug. The "bio-glue" is incredibly strong, moves with the body and crucially, sticks to wet surfaces. The incredible stickiness comes from the trinity of the attraction between the positively charged glue and negatively charged cells in the body; covalent bonds between atoms in the cell surface and the glue, and the way the glue physically penetrates tissue surfaces. Another crucial aspect of this glue is that it is able to absorb shock - it can take the physical stress and strain. So far it has proven its capabilities mechanically in the laboratory, in tests on rats and by sealing a hole in a pig's heart through tens of thousands of simulated heartbeats. (Source - BBC)

The world is full of natural gifts and evolutionary winners that humans can learn greatly from. This is exactly the kind of study that I would like to do - exploring the natural world to look for answers.

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Naturally sticky: Biologically-based medical glues dominate

Biologically-based medical glues, cyanoacrylate, or other synthetic. The bulk of global sales of medical glues are biologically-based, (includes fibrin, thrombogen, and others), rather than cyanoacrylate-based or other synthetic glues.

Synthetic glues

Cyanoacrylate-based glues, include those from Ethicon, Adhezion Biomedical, B. Braun, Meyer-Haake, and others. Cyanoacrylate-based glues for…

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Wounds looking for closure: Untapped potential for sealants, glues, hemostats

Wounds looking for closure: There's still big untapped potential in sealants, glues, hemostats.

Today’s surgeon has a broad range of products from which to choose for closing and sealing wounds. These include sutures, stapling devices, vascular clips, ligatures, and thermal devices, as well as a wide range of topical hemostats, surgical sealants and glues.

However, surgeons still primarily use sutures for wound closure and securement—sutures are cheap, familiar and work most of the time.…

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Add tick cement to the list of natural adhesives pursued for medical applications

Add tick cement to the list of natural adhesives pursued for medical applications

In past blog posts, we have noted multiple naturally-occurring substances or methods for strong adhesion that are being investigated for their potential to be exploited for medical or surgical adhesion. These include adhesives from remora, mussels, geckos, crab shells, Australian burrowing frogs, spider webs, porcupine quills, sandcastle worms.

Researchers from MedUni Vienna and Vienna University…

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Six Key Trends in Sealants, Glues, Hemostats Markets to 2022

Six Key Trends in Sealants, Glues, Hemostats Markets

From Report #S290.

Here are six key trends we see in the global market for surgical sealants, glues, and hemostats:

Aggressive development of products (including by universities, startups, established competitors), regulatory approvals, and new product introductions continues in the U.S., Europe, and Asia/Pacific (mostly Japan, Korea) to satisfy the growing volume of surgical procedures globally.

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The Demand for Sealants, Glues, and Hemostats in 2016

The following is drawn from “Worldwide Markets for Medical and Surgical Sealants, Glues, and Hemostats, 2015-2022.” Report #S290.

The need for surgical sealants, glues and hemostats is directly related to the clinical caseload and procedure volumes, as well as to the adoption of these products for multiple uses, such as the use of one product for sealing, hemostasis and anti-adhesion. It is fair…

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