Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 673: Oyster Bioadhesive

"Our bone adhesive is an injectable bone bonding material developed based on the principles of biomimicry and biopolymer technology.

Our material mimics the chemical composition and microstructure of natural bone matrix, possessing extremely 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 cement." Chen Yiyang slightly interrupted Professor Lin's explanation, asking with curiosity.

Because he had previously learned that bone cement was also used in this way.

"The difference lies in their names."

Professor Lin began to explain, "Cement and glue, although they might serve similar roles to an extent.

But the volume of glue is much smaller than that of cement.

Once cement 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 means 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 cement; 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 medical 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 cement, 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 someone's arm or leg encounters a fracture.

Previously, it was only possible to fix the fracture area with metal plates and be sent to the hospital for treatment.

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 formed 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 commercialized.

The soldiers on the battlefield will be just like in games.

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 treatment 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 emergency temporary use.

In areas such as the wilderness or other regions where treatment is unavailable.

This emergency bone adhesive can allow one to temporarily regain mobility while waiting to receive treatment.

Compared to the traditional method of using splints and plates for fixing fractured areas, this emergency 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 methods of bone cement being used to fix the bones with metal pins, allowing bones to heal.

In a hospital, doctors can precisely bond and fix the fractured area under the guidance of imaging equipment.

We can even achieve same-day treatment and rapid recovery without the patient undergoing surgery."

Hearing Professor Lin's introduction, Chen Yiyang could already envision.

Once such a future becomes a reality.

Then the so-called slow recovery of bones may become 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 same 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 medicine.

"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." 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

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 extremely strong but can also solidify quickly under any circumstances, whether under wind, rain, long-term sun exposure, or immersion 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 merely because it binds two objects using its ability alone.

This is fundamentally different in principle from the glue commonly used by humans.

The oyster's adhesive permeates directly into the rock, hardening into a stable adhesive layer.

This adhesive layer can make the oyster and rock become one to some 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 merge under the influence of this glue to become a complete bone again.

From the current experimental progress, our experiment has a very high success probability, and we will soon be recruiting volunteers for related clinical trials."