Nanotubes inspire new technique for healing broken bones
Bone tissue is a natural composite of collagen fibers and hydroxyapatite crystals. Haddon and his coworkers have demonstrated for the first time that nanotubes can mimic the role of collagen as the scaffold for growth of hydroxyapatite in bone.

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Sounds like with this and a bit of super glue, you’d have the sci-fi orthostat glue…