Hospital and Medical News

December 14, 2012

Mussel goo inspires blood vessel glue
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Dec 14, 2012
A University of British Columbia researcher has helped create a gel - based on the mussel's knack for clinging to rocks, piers and boat hulls - that can be painted onto the walls of blood vessels and stay put, forming a protective barrier with potentially life-saving implications. Co-invented by Assistant Professor Christian Kastrup while a postdoctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the gel is similar to the amino acid that enables mussels to resist the power of churning wa ... read more

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