Securing Implants Inside the Body with “Artificial Scales”
April 17, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
Stents in the heart save lives, but they can move and cause problems. Keeping any implant in place permanently can be difficult, but engineers at the University of Chicago have designed artificial scales from calcite and silicone that solve this problem. The scales are about the size of a red blood cell. MORE
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