Meat glue and crustacean shells form the right recipe for patching wounds

The kitchen and the laboratory have come together at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, where researchers have developed a method that allows a biodegradable, and biocompatible bioplastic derived from the chitin shells of crustaceans and insects to be used to patch up wounds or hold implanted medical devices in place. The technique involves combining the material with a cutting edge culinary ingredient called transglutaminase or "meat glue".

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Meat glue and crustacean shells form the right recipe for patching

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Meat glue and crustacean shells form the right recipe for patching

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