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Wound Dressing Design Works Like Embryonic Skin to Rapidly Heal Injuries (1 of 6)

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Wound Dressing Design Works Like Embryonic Skin to Rapidly Heal Injuries (1 of 6)

image: Bioinspired adhesive dressings are presented to shrink at skin temperature, contract the wound, and promote wound healing. 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." view more 

Credit: Xin You, Jianyu Li


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