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BREAKING: 🇨🇳 China has developed a new bone glue that can heal fractures in just under 3 minutes eliminating the need for surgery or metal plates... (lemmy.world)
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Article:

China’s oyster-inspired ‘bone glue’ bonds fractures, can replace metal in surgery

New bio-glue mimics oysters, fixing shattered bones in 3 minutes without major surgery.

[Sep 13, 2025 | Christopher McFadden | interestingengineering.com]

https://interestingengineering.com/science/chinas-oyster-inspired-bone-glue | https://web.archive.org/web/20250919225348/https://interestingengineering.com/science/chinas-oyster-inspired-bone-glue

ADAM | @AdameMedia

BREAKING: 🇨🇳 China has developed a new bone glue that can heal fractures in just under 3 minutes eliminating the need for surgery or metal plates.

It fully biodegrades in six months as bone heals and has been tested on more than 150 patients.

Meanwhile trump cut funding to Americas top universities for allowing criticism of Israel. He materially slowed down cancer research.

[Image: A close-up of a human arm with a visible fracture, showing a white tube applying a translucent, gel-like substance to the bone. The arm appears realistic with detailed skin texture. Text overlay in the upper right corner reads "新浪新闻 [Sina News]" in Chinese characters.]

6:33 PM | Sep 27, 2025

Source: https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1972112514591690930

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The adhesive is injected directly into the fracture site, where it quickly forms a strong chemical bond between bone fragments.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Given surgery seems to mostly used when things aren't where they are supposed to be, it seems like it frequently wouldn't be able to skip the surgery used to realign parts, but could mean not having a permanent plate or having to go back in to have them remove a temporary pin even if surgery was still required and not needed to drill holes in the bones. Also, if this could replace having an external cast for months and allow going back to normal life soon on non-surgery-requiring breaks, that could still be cool.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah thinking it removes the need for most major surgeries, probably, but not all.

Hope it's not too good to be true.

Would be insane if you could actually heal a broken bone with an injection. I guess if the bone breaks nicely and doesn't shatter. Especially for hairline fractures it would be really good, but we don't do much for those anyway. I think the bone would still be sore.

Hmm, how does it perform with cartilage?