But perhaps you need more exposure to slag, sewage pumps, adhesion promoters, viscous fluid dosing machines and state-of-the-art grease cartridges.

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For example, if it can scale bigger and keep the adhesion force, it could make for a great way to clean windows on skyscrapers.

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This stimulates the body to grow little spikes on the artery walls called adhesion molecules that snare floating immune system cells and bring them into the artery wall.

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The devices are so thin that close-contact forces called van der Waals interactions dominate the adhesion at the molecular level, so the electronic tattoos adhere to the skin without any glues and stay in place for hours.

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Sure enough they were able to prove that stopping oxidation also halted the production of VCAM-1, a vascular cell adhesion molecule, that helped set off the inflammatory process.

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