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Mending Hearts With Light-Activated Glue
the_newsbeagle writes "When surgeons set out to repair holes in the walls of the heart's chambers or in blood vessels, they often do invasive open-heart surgery and use sutures, staples, and glue to keep a patch in place. But the sutures and staples are a rough fix, and many of the glues on the market today don't work well on wet tissue that's continually flexed by the heart's contractions and the movement of pumping blood. Today biomaterial researchers announced a new light-activated glue that could make surgery less invasive, quicker, and easier. The adhesive was inspired by slugs' and sandcastle worms' sticky secretions, which work underwater, and it can be applied with slender tools during minimally invasive surgery. A flash of UV light then sets the glue, which bends and flexes with the tissue."
Or maybe we shouldn't worry about people who get one small fact wrong.
Religion is just one of many many many ways to be wrong about the world, and getting upset that someone dares to make a mistake just seems silly.
So you're saying that scientists invented slugs and sandcastle worms?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Remember that one the next time some politician promises to defund some oddball research because "who cares about slugs, worms or jellyfish".