"Our bone adhesive is an injectable bone bonding material developed based on the principles of biomimicry and biopolyr technology.
Our material mimics the chemical composition and microstructure of natural bone matrix, possessing extrely high biocompatibility and adhesive strength.
This material can rapidly solidify within the human body and form a tight connection with bone tissue."
"That sounds no different from bone cent." Chen Yiyang slightly interrupted Professor Lin's explanation, asking with curiosity.
Because he had previously learned that bone cent was also used in this way.
"The difference lies in their nas."
Professor Lin began to explain, "Cent and glue, although they might serve similar roles to an extent.
But the volu of glue is much smaller than that of cent.
Once cent solidifies, it's in large chunks and surrounds the bone.
But glue is much smaller. The amount of our bone adhesive used in the body is similar to the amount of glue you would use to fix a table, chair, bench, model toy, and other items.
This ans that once our bone adhesive solidifies, even if the solidified bone area suffers a secondary injury, the bone adhesive will not fall off, causing harm to the body.
Moreover, the curing capacity of bone adhesive is faster than bone cent; bone adhesive can solidify the bone in about three minutes after being injected into the human body.
Professor Lin said as he took out a tube containing glue for Chen Yiyang to see.
This container holding the bone adhesive looked more like a dical syringe compared to a regular glue tube.
Except that the needle is a bit thicker.
And such a packaging design made Chen Yiyang realize that, unlike bone cent, bone adhesive might not need to be administered surgically to be injected into the human body.
"You wouldn't need just one shot for this thing to work, right?" Chen Yiyang inquired.
"Correct." Professor Lin nodded, "However, it must be a professionally trained person to perform the glue injection.
If soone's arm or leg encounters a fracture.
Previously, it was only possible to fix the fracture area with tal plates and be sent to the hospital for treatnt.
But with our bone adhesive, if this bone adhesive can be used correctly, it can be directly injected into the fracture area using a needle.
Within minutes, the bone adhesive can temporarily stabilize their injured fracture area.
Even if a leg is fractured and cannot walk, the bone adhesive can forcibly bond the bones, allowing the patient to temporarily regain the ability to walk to a safe place."
Before Professor Lin finished his words, a scenario already ford in Chen Yiyang's mind.
He realized where this bone adhesive would be most needed.
That is the battlefield.
Once this thing is mature and widely comrcialized.
The soldiers on the battlefield will be just like in gas.
There'll be no worry about bone fractures; just give oneself a shot of bone adhesive, and one can temporarily regain combat capability.
Then they can receive further treatnt in a hospital.
This product can significantly enhance the survival ability of soldiers on the battlefield.
"In the future, we plan to develop two products of bone adhesive."
Professor Lin noticed the application scenario of bone adhesive imagined by Chen Yiyang.
He continued to introduce, "One is for ergency temporary use.
In areas such as the wilderness or other regions where treatnt is unavailable.
This ergency bone adhesive can allow one to temporarily regain mobility while waiting to receive treatnt.
Compared to the traditional thod of using splints and plates for fixing fractured areas, this ergency bone adhesive can prevent patients from losing mobility.
The other type is bone adhesive for hospital use.
This bone adhesive is primarily intended to replace previous thods of bone cent being used to fix the bones with tal pins, allowing bones to heal.
In a hospital, doctors can precisely bond and fix the fractured area under the guidance of imaging equipnt.
We can even achieve sa-day treatnt and rapid recovery without the patient undergoing surgery."
Hearing Professor Lin's introduction, Chen Yiyang could already envision.
Once such a future becos a reality.
Then the so-called slow recovery of bones may beco a thing of the past.
No more lying in bed for over a hundred days waiting for the bones to heal.
One can use the fractured area normally the sa day.
Perhaps the patient needs only to rest for a dozen days before becoming as healthy as before.
This will be a leap forward in the history of human dicine.
"I'm curious." Chen Yiyang couldn't help but ask Professor Lin.
"You said your bone adhesive was developed based on the principles of biomimicry, and I'm very interested in which animal it was based on."
After asking, Chen Yiyang realized that this question might involve confidential information, so he quickly added, "Of course, if it's inconvenient to say, that's fine."
"There's nothing inconvenient about it." Professor Lin said generously,
"We are inspired by and drew ideas from oysters."
"The kind you eat?" Chen Yiyang inquired.
"Yes." Professor Lin nodded, "I don't know if you've eaten wild oysters.
Wild oysters are mostly firmly fixed on rocks, as if they are growing on them, needing tools and techniques to pry them off.
Subsequent research revealed that the reason oysters can adhere so firmly to rocks is due to the powerful adhesive secreted by their soft bodies.
This naturally secreted biological adhesive is not only extrely strong but can also solidify quickly under any circumstances, whether under wind, rain, long-term sun exposure, or imrsion in saltwater, without affecting its adhesive ability.
It can be said that this substance secreted by oysters surpasses all human-developed adhesives on the market.
The strength and toughness brought by this adhesive are indeed our ideal bone strength and toughness.
So our team began analyzing this adhesive.
Soon we discovered that the effectiveness of this adhesive was not rely because it binds two objects using its ability alone.
This is fundantally different in principle from the glue commonly used by humans.
The oyster's adhesive perates directly into the rock, hardening into a stable adhesive layer.
This adhesive layer can make the oyster and rock beco one to so extent and thickens its shell based on the adhesive layer.
Hence, we hypothesized whether we could emulate the oyster's ability to develop a glue that could fuse with human bones, allowing two pieces of human bone to rge under the influence of this glue to beco a complete bone again.
From the current experintal progress, our experint has a very high success probability, and we will soon be recruiting volunteers for related clinical trials."
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