Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun — the kind you’d use for an arts and crafts DIY project at home — to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals, to aid ...
A tool made from a modified glue gun can now repair broken bones in surgery by 3D-printing grafts directly onto them. Bone implants have historically been made of metal, donor bone and more recently ...
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Scientists Hacked the Glue Gun Design to Print Bone Scaffolds Directly into Broken Legs (And It Works)
Imagine a surgeon fixing a shattered bone not with screws or plates, but with a device that looks like a craft-store glue gun. Instead of hot glue, it extrudes a custom mix of biodegradable plastic ...
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