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Biomedical devices

Medical devices take design tips from the animal kingdom

26 Jun 2023 Tami Freeman
The pangolin and the blue-ringed octopus
Inspired by nature The pangolin and the blue-ringed octopus provide inspiration for the development of new medical devices. (Courtesy: CC BY-SA 4.0/Frendi Apen Irawan; pen_ash)
The animal kingdom has benefited from millions of years of biological evolution to adapt processes a

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