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    The key to this biotech’s tilt at US fortune is pure pigs

    Tom Rabe
    Tom RabeWA political correspondent

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    An Australian regenerative medicine company is preparing for a major expansion in the US with a unique “collagen Velcro” sourced from high-quality pigs that repairs severed nerves.

    The tiny collagen patch, manufactured in a lab south of Perth, has the ability to bind nerves back together without the need for surgical stitching, with the potential to restore function to once-paralysed limbs.

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