{"id":88141,"date":"2019-02-24T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-material-could-drive-wound-healing-using-the-bodys-inbuilt-healing-system"},"modified":"2019-02-24T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T06:22:53","slug":"new-material-could-drive-wound-healing-using-the-bodys-inbuilt-healing-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/new-material-could-drive-wound-healing-using-the-bodys-inbuilt-healing-system","title":{"rendered":"New material could \u2018drive wound healing\u2019 using the body\u2019s inbuilt healing system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXTa0LxP1Ds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imperial researchers have developed a new bioinspired material that interacts with surrounding tissues to promote healing.<\/p>\n<p>Materials are widely used to help heal wounds: Collagen sponges help treat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/burns-and-scalds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">burns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/pressure-sores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pressure sores<\/a>, and scaffold-like implants are used to repair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/common-health-questions\/accidents-first-aid-and-treatments\/how-do-i-know-if-i-have-broken-a-bone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broken bones<\/a>. However, the process of tissue repair changes over time, so scientists are looking to biomaterials that interact with tissues as healing takes place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p> Creatures from sea sponges to humans use cell movement to activate healing. Our approach mimics this by using the different cell varieties in wounds to drive healing. Dr Ben Almquist <i>Department of Bioengineering<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/189689\/new-material-could-drive-wound-healing\/\">https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/189689\/new-material-could-drive-wound-healing\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial researchers have developed a new bioinspired material that interacts with surrounding tissues to promote healing. Materials are widely used to help heal wounds: Collagen sponges help treat burns and pressure sores, and scaffold-like implants are used to repair broken bones. However, the process of tissue repair changes over time, so scientists are looking to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88141","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\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}