Your own blood holds the ability to heal your wounds fast and prevent further infection. A new finding says that a concentrated “cocktail” of a person’s own blood could be used to help dress wounds, particularly in patients with diabetes or other disorders that slow the healing process. The finding explains why it becomes possible:
Blood’s healing effects lie in its platelets–sticky, disc-shaped molecules that naturally flock to the site of a wound, binding to blood-vessel walls to stop bleeding. These platelets are thought to contain elevated levels of growth factors that, when released, initiate a cascade of events that ultimately heal the injury.
This could very well trigger a technology that would enable the body to heal itself in case of infections and injuries. A biological mechanism can be installed inside the body that is activated as soon as the body is in distress. Who knows? One day our limbs will auto-regenerate.
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