image: 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." view more
Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University