Scaling-up production of biopolymer microthreads
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
Development of new therapies for a range of medical conditions -- from common sports injuries to heart attacks -- will be supported by a new production-scale microthread extruder. The system is in the final stages of testing and validation and will soon be manufacturing thousands of hair-like biopolymer threads a day.
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