Porous Hydrogel Speeds Healing

Porous Hydrogel Speeds Healing
Nov-22-18
A porous hydrogel that lets cells pass through could increase its wound-healing capacity.

Although hydrogels show great promise in healing wounds, their non-porous nature prevents adjacent tissue cells from reaching the injury to help it mend. To allows these useful cells access, the team from the University of New Hampshire created an injectable hydrogel made up of spheres of inexpensive gelatin microgels attached with the enzyme microbial transglutaminase (mTG). This arrangement results in a hydrogel stable enough to protect wounds and contain medicine while also allowing nearby cells to pass through easily.

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