Gecko feet inspire medical breakthrough
13 November 2016 - 02:00
A glue that can be used to seal microscopic fissures in human tissue has been created by Jeffrey Karp, a bioengineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts - inspired by a gecko's Spiderman-like climbing ability. Karp has been heralded as a "bioinspirationalist", someone who looks to nature for solutions to scientific problems.
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