An inch-long marine worm has inspired researchers to develop a new adhesive that can be used to repair shattered bones. The inch-long sandcastle worm secretes a durable, biodegradable glue that is ...

Despite all the amazing advances in recent medicine, there are still plenty of simple problems lacking a clear solution. For one, we still haven't found a great way to heal fractures in the top of ...

Researchers Jacob Israelachvili, Qiang Zhao and Kollbe Ahn. (Sonia Fernandez / The UCSB Current photo) An interdisciplinary group of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has taken strides in the ...

A bit of chemical magic wrought by a little worm that lives in the sea might one day be used to knit broken human bones back together in the wet environment of the body, said University of Utah ...

An interdisciplinary group of researchers has made strides in the development of an underwater adhesive that has the potential for a variety of biomedical and non-biological applications. An ...