Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Enhanced Wound Healing The Aim Of Bio-mimicry Discovery

Scientists Develop New Therapeutics That Could Accelerate Wound Healing.  Medical Xpress.  February 20, 2013.

The growth factor involved in natural wound-healing is unstable outside the body thus limited efforts to use it to speed wound healing.  To stabilize the factor scientists have learned how to mimic the complex sugar to which it naturally binds.  One possible use of this discovery is with diabetes sufferers whose wounds often heal slowly.

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