Worm spit that heals
Michael Smout |
TEDxJCUCairns
• September 2017
What if you cut your foot and it didn’t heal, after months gangrene set in and your leg needs to be amputated? This situation isn’t fiction – 1/70 of us suffer from non-healing chronic wounds and they are a big problem with diabetics, the elderly and smokers. But all it not lost, we are working on a cream that supercharges wound healing with the active ingredient derived from a very unusual place…parasitic worm spit.
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