Promising discovery aims to improve healing time of traumatic injuries
Dr. Malcolm Xing, a professor in Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Wen Zhong, an Associate Professor in Biosystems Engineering at the Price Faculty of Engineering have had a revolutionary medical research project published in the Science Advances journal. The project was researched collaboratively with the University of Manitoba, Western University, and the Institute of South West hospital in China.
Failure to stop bleeding in trauma and surgery is a significant contributor to mortality. This promising discovery aims to improve the healing time of injuries through bioadhesion inspired by the blood clotting of activity from a highly poisonous snake venom.