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Crabshell-Based Polymer for Sealing Surgical Wounds
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 21, 2007
Surgilux is a thin polymer bio-film made from material extracted from crab shells that seals surgical wounds without the need for sutures.
Measuring just 50 microns thick, the film is placed on a surgical wound and exposed to an infrared laser, which heats the film just enough to meld ...