Clever coating for medical devices stops clots by imitating a blood vessel

When a patient’s blood flows through catheters, stents or other medical devices, there’s always a risk that harmful clots may form. An experimental new bio-inspired coating could keep that from happening, without the use of blood-thinning drugs. Any time that…

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