Green Dye can sterilize bone during surgery with light activation

GREEN DYE KILLS BACTERIA ON BONE (Orthopedics This Week)
The dye is green and it sticks to bone fragments and grafts. When it is exposed to light the dye becomes antimicrobial.
A study, published online in April in the journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, reports that an antimicrobial dye activated by light “avidly adheres to bone to prevent bacteria from growing on bone fragments used in reconstructive surgery, and remove any bacteria that has already attached, thereby sterilizing the bone for surgery.”
Noreen Hickok, Ph.D, associate professor of orthopedic surgery at Thomas...