Many clinical applications have been found in the past for synthethic materials originally designed with
an alternative purpose in mind. Historically ‘off the shelf’ materials have been chosen for medical
applications due to their availability and seemingly appropriate mechanical properties.
The clinical community widely accepts the growing need for ‘bio-inspired’ materials that will be
mechanically compatible with the host tissue at the site of intended use.

Vysera has developed novel biomaterials that can mimic the mechanical properties of soft biological
tissues. Many existing biomaterials are either stiff engineering thermoplastics or thermoplastic
elastomers. Such conventional materials cannot approximate the complex mechanical behaviour of
dynamic anatomical systems. Various tissues, including those of the gastrointestinal system, stretch
readily but only relax back to their original dimensions gradually.

Vysera’s BioTx biomaterials are formed using proprietary chemistry, which facilitates the covalent
linking of disimilar biocompatible polymers. The resulting copolymers can be made to exhibit a variety
of properties, which thus enables the BioTx material to be ‘tailored’ to mechanically mimic the target
tissue of choice.