future sci-fi medical advances coming your way in the form of a biodegradeable liquid peptides. it’s pour-on nanotechnology with huge beneficial medical applications. researchers at MIT and the university of hong kong have developed a liquid solution that quickly halts bleeding and promotes and accelerates healing. the discovery of the solution came about through experiments in using the solution as a matrix for regrowing brain cells in hamsters. the nano-solution has been tested on liver, skin, lung, blood vessels, and other tissues. quoting from lead researcher Rutledge Ellis-Behnke:
It isn’t clotting that we’re seeing. We tested for all of the things you find in all blood clots; fibrin, thrombin and platelets and none of them were there, said Ellis-Behnke. Either this is acting as some kind of molecular band aid or we are stopping bleeding via a completely new direction that we have never seen before.
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