Spider-Web Bandages: New Medicine Mimics Nature
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
By copying the blueprints found in nature, Jeffrey Karp and his team of researchers at Brigham & Women’s Hospital are making advances in cardiac surgery, neo-natal care and drug delivery. The technique is called ‘biomimicry,’ and it can be found in everything from architecture to nanotechnology. Matt Rivera reports.