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Scientists Develop 'Glue Gun' That 3D Prints Bone Grafts Directly Onto Fractures (livescience.com)

(Sunday September 28, 2025 @03:34AM (EditorDavid) from the sticky-situation dept.)


"Researchers have modified a standard glue gun to 3D print a bone-like material directly onto fractures," [1]reports LiveScience , "paving the way for its use in operating rooms."

> 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


Great (Score:3, Interesting)

by backslashdot ( 95548 )

We're transforming ICE into brownshirts and SS agents, while China is developing stuff like this.

Re: Great (Score:1)

by Tatsh ( 893946 )

Every single country has immigration laws.

Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward

> 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

Re: (Score:2)

by ceoyoyo ( 59147 )

The South Koreans would like a word. Oh, and MIT and Harvard.

There's nothing "3D printing" about this (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward

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.

Re: (Score:3)

by CaptQuark ( 2706165 )

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]

Due to t

[1] https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(25)00186-3

Re: (Score:2)

by cerberusss ( 660701 )

Mod parent up, very insightful summary.

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do,
and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the
graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't
hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt someone.
Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good
for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint
and sing and dance and play and work some every day.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for
traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the
little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and
nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and
hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup -- they all
die. So do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you
learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK. Everything you need to know is in
there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and
politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world
-- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with
our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other
nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own
messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into
the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
-- Robert Fulghum, "All I ever really needed to know I learned
in kindergarten"