Researchers have found a way to turn venom into a powerful healing gel.
The biomaterials research team from the University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology , led by Postdoctoral Research Fellow Amanda Kijas, has discovered a protein in the venom of two snakes that could serve as a useful accelerant in the human body’s natural blood-clotting process,that can stop bleeding by“As many as 40 percent of trauma-related deaths are the result of uncontrolled bleeding, and this figure is much higher when it comes to military...
The research shows there is five times less blood loss, and clots form three times more quickly when the venom gel is applied, compared to the body’s natural process."Kijas added that today's first aid treatment using gauze products often is not effective at stopping bleeding in the case of an emergency.
One substance that protected against the bite of 10 different snakes saw its production thwarted in 2014 because i
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