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Daybreak South | Dec 13, 2012 | 5:21

Harvard researchers learn porcupine quills have medical use

Porcupine quills may soon be able to do more help than harm. Harvard researchers are learning that the characteristics that enable the quills to penetrate and stick in the skin, could actually contribute to the medical world.

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