Spiny Worm Inspires Next-Gen Band-Aid

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05/02/2013 09:00 AM EDT

Artist rendition of spiny headed worm │The adhesive patch with microneedles that swellSource: The Karp Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Inspiration can come from some pretty strange sources. Case in point: a new adhesive Band-Aid inspired by Pomphorhynchus laevis, a spiny-headed worm that lives in the intestines of fish. The parasitic worm pokes ...

 

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