{"id":79289,"date":"2018-06-05T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/bizarre-state-of-matter-to-treat-wounds-instead-of-antibiotics"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:02:21","slug":"bizarre-state-of-matter-to-treat-wounds-instead-of-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/bizarre-state-of-matter-to-treat-wounds-instead-of-antibiotics","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre state of matter to treat wounds instead of antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bizarre-state-of-matter-to-treat-wounds-instead-of-antibiotics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Julianna Photopoulos<\/p>\n<p>A plasma patch could soon be used to dress wounds. Plasma is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431240-200-time-crystals-the-loopy-gizmos-that-repeat-their-tricks-forever\/\">state of matter<\/a>, like a solid or gas, and can kill bacteria including those that are resistant to antibiotics. Normally plasmas form at high temperatures, but a new patch can create cold plasmas that may be ideal for use on the body.<\/p>\n<p>The patch is developed by German company Coldplasmatech and produces a plasma by sending high energy electrons through the air between the patch and skin. This rips some of the electrons off molecules \u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2170807-bizarre-state-of-matter-to-treat-wounds-instead-of-antibiotics\/\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2170807-bizarre-state-o...tibiotics\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julianna Photopoulos A plasma patch could soon be used to dress wounds. Plasma is a state of matter, like a solid or gas, and can kill bacteria including those that are resistant to antibiotics. Normally plasmas form at high temperatures, but a new patch can create cold plasmas that may be ideal for use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}