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This Barnacle-Inspired Glue Stops Heavy Bleeding Fast

In what may seem an unusual solution, a mechanical engineering team at MIT has found a solution to a long-standing medical problem. For the last seven years, Hyunwoo Yuk’s team has been developing an entirely different approach to stopping bleeding: glue. More specifically, a barnacle-inspired glue. Yuk says barnacles hold an evolutionary solution to the ...

Raven Montmorency

Barnacles showing at low tide.