Products made from polymers ranging from plastic bags to clothing to cookware to electronics provide many comforts and support today's standard of living, but since they do not decompose easily, they pose long-term environmental challenges.
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The technology, which mimics the body’s natural clotting process, could help keep severely injured people alive until they are treated at a hospital. MIT engineers have designed a two-component system that can be injected into the body and help form blood clots at the sites of internal injury. Th