Science To Rescue: Our Rollerski Scraped Knees Would Heal Three Times Quicker With New Smart Bandage

Science To Rescue: Our Rollerski Scraped Knees Would Heal Three Times Quicker With New Smart Bandage

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How many times did you fall on rollerskis this year and scraped your knees real bad? And how many days did it take for those wounds, scrapes and lacerations to heal? Rollerskiers (and bikers, inline skaters and other brothers & sisters in pain in lower extremities) rejoice! Because researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, working jointly with Harvard Medical School and MIT, have come up a smart bandage that is meant speed up wound healing by the factor of three! At least that's what was achieved with wounded lab mice – their skin tissue regrew three times faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6uFlRuPZY The bandage itself is very XXI century – it consists of "electrically conductive fibers coated in a gel that can be individually loaded with infection-fighting antibiotics, tissue-regenerating growth factors, painkillers or…
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Rare Breed: Meet Four-Wheel Rollerskis

Rare Breed: Meet Four-Wheel Rollerskis

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Modern rollerskis come in such a vast variety of length, platform material, wheel sizes & intended use, that it would be easier to say what do they all actually have in common: two wheels attached to a frame. True? Well, not quite. There is a very rare breed called “four wheel rollerskis” - a longer platform with four wheels arranged (mostly) in a single line. In different times different manufacturers were or still are producing these exotic marvels. The reasoning behind complex and expensive creature is as follow: longer frame of four-wheeler mimics the feel of long skis better and provides what the Germans aptly call Geradeauslauf-Führung  ( directional stability) Here they are. Rolec, Switzerland Rolec's website lists Björn Daehlie Nathalie Santer, Giachem Guidon and other titans of the past…
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