Diverse technologies have a surprising number of common threads, whether in the technologies themselves or in the clinical applications. For this reason, manufacturers need to consider that: 1. A technology platform can be the launchpad for products in clinically diverse areas. Case in point, cell therapy, which as a fundamental scientific discipline can have uses [...]
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Posted 23 March 2010
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Add to the list of naturally occurring glue sources — mussels, the C. crescentus bacteria, Australian burrowing frogs and the gecko ("geckel" glue) — the sandcastle worm. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version of a superglue based on a naturally occurring glue produced by sandcastle worms, which use this glue to build [...]
