New “living bandage” accelerates healing of wounds

Elizabeth Kelley holding a cytokine-secreting patch. (Jared Jones / Rice University via SWNS)

By Stephen Beech

A new "living bandage" accelerates the healing of wounds, according to new research.

New “living bandage” accelerates healing of wounds

Christian Schreib and Elizabeth Kelley. (Jared Jones/Rice University via SWNS)

New “living bandage” accelerates healing of wounds

Wound-healing patches can vary in size and present indentations housing cytokine-secreting cells (right). In preclinical studies, delivery of cytokines using the patch supported accelerated wound healing: histology image show healed healthy skin (top left) vs. wounded skin (bottom left). (Jared Jones / Rice University / Veiseh lab via SWNS)

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