[SCIENCE DAILY] Embryo-Inspired Bandage Uses Body Heat to Speed Healing

[ENTERPRISE]

Cuts, scrapes, blisters, burns, splinters, and punctures — there are a number of ways our skin can be broken. Most treatments for skin wounds involve simply covering them with a barrier (usually an adhesive gauze bandage) to keep them moist, limit pain, and reduce exposure to infectious microbes, but they do not actively assist in the healing process.

 

More sophisticated wound dressings that can monitor aspects of healing such as pH and temperature and deliver therapies to a wound site have been developed in recent years, but they are complex to manufacture, expensive, and difficult to customize, limiting their potential for widespread use.

 

Now, a new, scalable approach to speeding up wound healing has been developed based on heat-responsive hydrogels that are mechanically active, stretchy, tough, highly adhesive, and antimicrobial: active adhesive dressings (AADs). Created by researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, the Harvard John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and McGill University, AADs can close wounds significantly faster than other methods and prevent bacterial growth without the need for any additional apparatus or stimuli. The research is reported in Science Advances.

 

Probably good for our modders that are always getting scrapes right ?

Embryo-Inspired Bandage Uses Body Heat to Speed Healing

[Simmons]

Definitely sounds like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. Definitely on board for this, and I look forward to seeing how this develops.

[ENTERPRISE]

Very sci-fi, but we all know that on a lot of occasions that science fictions becomes science fact. It is all about the imagination.