New way to reduce skin scarring relies on a glue-like substance secreted by mussels

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 - 09:02 in Health & Medicine

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea has developed a new skin application designed to reduce skin scarring due to injury. In their paper published in the journal Biomaterials, the group describes the glue-like substance they created and how well it worked on rats.

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