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Sweet Solution

Engineers Using 3D Printed Sugar Stents to Improve Surgery Success

by Hanna Watkin
Published Apr 10, 2019

University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers are using 3D printing and sugar to create tubes that fit inside adjacent ends of a clipped artery during surgery to help ease the fiddly-nature of the surgeon's work.