Scientists Develop 'Glue Gun' That 3D Prints Bone Grafts Directly Onto Fractures (livescience.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/09/27/2157219/scientists-develop-glue-gun-that-3d-prints-bone-grafts-directly-onto-fractures
- Source link: https://www.livescience.com/health/surgery/scientists-develop-glue-gun-that-3d-prints-bone-grafts-directly-onto-fractures
> The device, which has so far been tested in rabbits, would be particularly useful for fixing irregularly shaped fractures during surgery, the researchers say.
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> "To my knowledge, there are virtually no previous examples of applying the technology directly as a bone substitute," [2]study co-author Jung Seung Lee, a biomedical engineer at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, told Live Science in an email. "This makes the approach quite unique and sets it apart from conventional methods...."
"Further studies in larger animal models are needed before the technology can be used on humans," the article points out.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader [3]fahrbot-bot for sharing the article.
[1] https://www.livescience.com/health/surgery/scientists-develop-glue-gun-that-3d-prints-bone-grafts-directly-onto-fractures
[2] https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(25)00186-3
[3] https://www.slashdot.org/~fahrbot-bot
There's nothing "3D printing" about this (Score:1)
The researchers developed a PCL/HA formulation of glue sticks that can be used with a standard glue gun you'd buy from a hardware store for repair bones in-situ.
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I can understand your confusion. From the first link to the LiveScience page it appears it is just applied on top of a break. If you look at the article in the deeper link you will see that first image just shows the antibacterial absorption from the material. The complete image on the Cell website shows the added material was used to replace a missing section of the bone wider than the diameter of the bone. This indeed would be considered 3D additive printing. [1]https://www.cell.com/device/fu... [cell.com]
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[1] https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(25)00186-3
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Mod parent up, very insightful summary.
Great (Score:3, Interesting)
We're transforming ICE into brownshirts and SS agents, while China is developing stuff like this.
Re: Great (Score:1)
Every single country has immigration laws.
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> Every single country has immigration laws.
Yes, but no other country is abusing them for political gain, a truth hidden behind endless lies.
It's astonishing how much current events are parallel to Hitler's rise to power, which was also heavily reliant on the power of the lie - and suppressing the truth whenever the truth didn't fit with the agenda.
What's even more astonishing is immigrant policy primarily affects farmers and right wing business owners - who hire most of the illegal immigrants. Talk abou
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The South Koreans would like a word. Oh, and MIT and Harvard.