Tapeworm inspired medical device (IMAGE)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Tapeworm inspired medical device

Caption

A comparison between the tapeworm deployable hook array that provided the motivation for the present study (left two images), and the resulting millimeter-scale engineering analog (right two images).

 

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Harvard SEAS

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