Fast Healing Blood Clotting
Synthetic Platelets
Is the new milestone of many breakthroughs scientists, inventors and researchers have checked off the list for "The Future!"
I imagine there really is a
list around inside a lab coat pocket somewhere I swear, but if there isn't,
these super platelets are checked off my list with hover-boards and telekinesis
machines. After watching so many sci-fi movies and video games show super
healing in little potion like bottles, syringes to sprays, pulse guns, nano-robots
and you name it, healing has only been a small little dream I’ve had for maybe
2050. Man has never gotten as far as now to practically, accelerated healing.
The human body has its own
coagulation process in which blood platelets accumulate at the site of a wound
to form a plug and stop blood flow. It’s
a primary concern for patients and medical personnel to control blood flow in
many situations such as trauma injuries to surgeries and illnesses. Researchers
in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Center for Bioengineering
(CBE) at UC Santa Barbara have created nanoparticales that were inspired by the
human body’s own coagulation. The nanoparticles mimic the shape, flexibility
and surface biology of the body’s own platelets but they’re different because the
physics of their shape and their response to chemical stimuli let them reach an
injury and call other platelets immediately to the site of the injury quicker.
For severe injuries anti-coagulation medication and people who have an impaired
ability to make clots the nanoparticles can be pretty useful. They add to a
patient’s own natural platelet supply, stem the flow of blood, initiate the
healing process quicker, and heal injuries quicker, call on other platelets,
and dissolve into the blood after they’re use has run out. They were able to
decrease bleeding time by 65% compared to the average time an injury without
treatment would heal. The synthetic particles can also be used to let
researchers customize the particles with other therapeutic substances and other
medical substances for patients with specific conditions, and well they can
make them do other things besides help coagulation. The synthetic platelets
also cost less and have a longer shelf life than human platelets, that’s going
to be useful for emergencies, and well will make the researchers pretty rich.
It's all pretty amazing, it might not be instant healing but, is it faster, and will help out doctors a lot. The only thing I'm worried about is that this kind of technology could get out to bad people and maybe can be used as a poison, weapon, disease, and other things, but I bet it's pretty protected. These synthetic particles also really remind me of the movie Transcendence, though the ones in transcendence act like mind controlling robots that can clone any particle. These particles are entirely inspired by the human body, and should act naturally so I'm not as worried.
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