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40cm
actual image size: 32cm x 26cm
Description
Profesor Larry Hench demonstrating 'bio-glas' in the Antenna Gallery, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London, May 2001. Hench invented the first man-made material that can bond with living tisue and is Profesor of Ceramic Materials at Imperial College, London. 'Bio-glas' is a porous glas that can be cast in any shape, forming a scaffold for new bone cells to grow on. When bio-glas disolves, it releases substances that act like fertilisers, encouraging cells to fill the cast.
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