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Researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a new medical adhesive inspired by the sticky footpads of gecko lizards that could potentially replace the glues, sutures, and staples...
...There is a great need for biomedical adhesives that are tape-based,” said Jeffrey M. Karp, a Harvard Medical School affiliate and one of the head researchers on the gecko project...
...team of researchers at Lewis and Clark College discovered how gecko feet “stick” to a surface, according to MSNBC. Karp and his colleague, MIT Professor Robert S. Langer, have turned this microscopic structure into a possible medical tool...
...Gecko footpads are covered with millions of tiny “nanopillars” that can stick to almost anytype of material, enabling the lizards to cling to surfaces, scale walls, and climb trees. Karp and Langer sculpted their biorubber in the shape of these nanopillars and coated it with a sugar-based glue...
...more diverse approach to getting our message out," Kelly says. She needed an expert - and hired an 18-year-old. "He had a MySpace site done for me within an hour. He knows how to upload videos and get his friends onto the site. We call him our techno-gecko...