"Noodle Gels" or "Spaghetti Highways" Could Become Tools of Regenerative Medicine
Sunday, March 25, 2012 - 20:00
in Health & Medicine
Medicine's recipe for keeping older people active and functioning in their homes and workplaces -- and healing younger people injured in catastrophic accidents -- may include "noodle gels" and other lab-made invisible filaments that resemble uncooked spaghetti with nanoscale dimensions, a scientist said here today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).