Rebuild your body

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2934, 2013, págs. 32-35
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Elizabeth Loboa says it started as a little sore near her knee but the antibiotic ointment wasn't working, and within two weeks what was one wound had become three. From the looks of the wound, her doctor suspected the superbug MRSA and prescribed powerful last-line oral antibiotics. It was at that point that the temptation just became too great. Instead of taking them, she decided to test a treatment she'd been developing--on herself. Loboa wasn't just any patient. In her lab at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, the materials engineer had been cooking up a special kind of self-destructing super-bandage capable of healing infected wounds quickly, without scarring or standard antibiotics. Here, Coghlan discusses this material that degrades until nothing is left but one's own, newly regenerated, healthy cells, at the heart of Loboa's superplaster.