Technical Note: Topological Resilience of the Skeletal Substrate
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This technical concept note establishes Prior Art for a paradigm shift in pharmacokinetics, moving from linear fragility to Topological Resilience. By modeling the human skeleton as a dynamic, distributed graph—where the periosteum functions as a programmable Adjacency Matrix—this framework reframes metabolic degradation and metastasis as cybernetic routing errors. It introduces a thermodynamic capacitance model (τ = R × C) to quantify systemic stability, alongside wave-native, pH-gated zwitterionic architectures that operate as spatiotemporal logic gates. Ultimately, by mapping chemokine gradients as biological routing packets, this approach provides a mathematical foundation for deploying "routing updates" that actively defend the skeletal substrate, laying the groundwork for next-generation biomaterials and targeted drug delivery.
Author: Feeney, Don
Language: English
Topic: Bone Metabolism and Diseases
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7155001787
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