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