[extropy-chat] Pour-on nanotechnology stops bleeding in seconds

[Rik van Riel]

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, have 
created a liquid that stops bleeding in any tissue in a matter of 
seconds. It is a discovery that they claim has the potential to 
revolutionise surgery and emergency medicine and could even make it 
easier to reattach severed limbs.

Rutledge Ellis-Behnke and colleagues worked from the nanoscale, using 
individual amino acids to create a self-assembling peptide. It looks 
exactly like water but when applied directly onto injured tissue it 
halts bleeding. This is the first time nanotechnology has been used to 
control bleeding, claims Rutledge.

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http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/October/10080601.asp

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