Wound Dressing Design Works Like Embryonic Skin to Rapidly Heal Injuries (4 of 6) (IMAGE)

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Wound Dressing Design Works Like Embryonic Skin to Rapidly Heal Injuries (4 of 6)

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The active adhesive dressing (AAD) contracts when it heats up to body temperature, allowing it to accelerate the healing of open wounds on the skin. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 24th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.O. Blacklow at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and colleagues was titled, "Bioinspired mechanically active adhesive dressings to accelerate wound closure."

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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