Gas-Propelled Microparticles Travel Deep into Wounds to Stop Bleeding (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Gas-Propelled Microparticles Travel Deep into Wounds to Stop Bleeding (4 of 4)

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Scanning electron micrograph shows a calcium carbonate microparticle. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 2 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.R. Baylis at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Self-propelled particles that transport cargo through flowing blood and halt hemorrhage."

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[Credit: Ju Hun Yeon and the UBC BioImaging Facility.]

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