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Wonder Gel Instantly Closes and Stops Profusely Bleeding Wounds

Mar. 11, 2013 6:30pm Liz Klimas

Scientists have long been on the hunt for a compound that can quickly clot and close open wounds to stop bleeding, stave off infection and begin the healing process.

We’ve previously reported on MIT “biocoating” that researchers hope will stop bleeding soldiers in the field in under a minute. Then there’s “Veti-Gel,” a synthetic substance that helps hold cells together and triggers clotting.

Veti-Gel has been in development for the last few years by students at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), their startup Suneris and Englewood Hospital in New Jersey. The gel, NYU-Poly student Joe Landolina told Tech News Daily in a recent article, “tells the body, ‘OK, stop the bleeding’[...].” He went on to say that it helps begin the healing process as well.

NYU Poly Students Create Veti Gel That Closes Bleeding Wounds Instantly

The gel goes into the wound and then a protective coating is sprayed on top as illustrated in this image. (Image: Suneris)

Here’s more about how the technology works:

Veti-Gel (also sometimes called Medi-Gel) is a synthetic form of the extracellular matrix, or ECM, the substance that forms a kind of scaffolding in the body that holds cells together and also triggers the clotting process if there is an injury. In tests on rats, Landolina was able to close up a slice into the liver and a puncture of the carotid artery. (He plans to publish the results in about two months.)

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Plants naturally produce a material similar to the human extracellular matrix, but Landolina improves the process by using genetically modified plants to create Veti-Gel. Other wound treatments, such as collagen, come from animals, he said. And some rival treatments require refrigeration. Veti-Gel can be kept in packets or tubes at any temperature from 33 degrees to about 90 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree to 32 degrees Celsius).

Landolina co-founded Suneris centered around the gel technology. On the company’s website, the gel is described as one that “looks like, feels like and acts like skin.”

The Veti-Gel, which has also been called Medi-Gel, creators recently released a video showing how it works. The test was conducted on a bloody piece of pork, which according to Tech News Daily is less gruesome than some of the tests they have conducted on mice.

Watch the test (Note: the footage has a significant amount of blood as it is being pumped into the meat to create a steady stream for demonstration purposes):

Landolina also said the gel might have application for burn victims. Similar to a product popularized in a scene from “The Hunger Games” that instantly soothed and quickly healed burns, a friend of Landolina found Veti-Gel seemed to have similar results.

In 2011, Landolina and fellow researcher Kenny Mai were first place winners as freshmen in the Time Warner Cable Inno/Vention Competition for the gel.

Landolina has a patent pending for Veti-Gel and is beginning the process of having it approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Tech News Daily wrote. With other clotting agents currently on the market, Landolina is also conducting tests to see how Veti-Gel compares.

Read more details about Veti-Gel in Tech News Daily’s full article here.

Featured image via Shutterstock.com.

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hoosierblue
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:12am
Maybe we could take a truck load of it to Washington and dump it on the FED, and stop the country’s bleeding.

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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:16am
  …ummmm…it’d take more than a truck load.
  
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- seanscythe
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:55am
  There’s so much Blood!!
  
  Cool
  
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- Krutch
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:30am
  Don’t let DC even know about this stuff. They’ll put a five day waiting period or registration requirement on the stuff. At least on lawabiding citizens.
  
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- loafer4952
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 6:56pm
  Would take several train cars full to do that.
  
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cosmic dogma
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 1:24am
I need some for my emergency vet kit for my horses, who seem to be able to impale themselves on invisible, unknown and undetectable sharp thingies at very inopportune moments. One minute they are sound, next minute they are standing looking at you with some giant gash dripping blood down their leg. Coming in from a well manicured pasture with well maintained four board wooden fences. ??? Murphy’s law with four feet…horses

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- markwh60
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 4:30pm
  Wow, I agree! I thought the same thing. Our horse is always doing something stupid.
  
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Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_Arteeest_Beck
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 12:56am
“Wonder Gel Instantly Closes and Stops Profusely Bleeding Wounds”

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“It is the time for the New World Order’s economic system to be implemented. Nation ID will be required to hold a job. Every major American Presidential candidate, except one, favors the Nation ID. EVERY CANDIDATE, EXCEPT ONE, FAVORS YOU HAVING A NATIONAL ID.”

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“Charles Wurster [Environmental Defense Fund] said people are the cause of all problems, we need to get rid of some of them. Bill Clinton … signed the Bio Diversity treaty that said we need to reduce the earth’s population to 1 billion. They’ve already got the earth … divided up into regions. Red areas are for animals only, no human beings allowed. The treaty’s been signed, it just hasn’t been enforced yet. Coming soon, though.”

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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:10pm
Is it cheaper than dirt?

Well that’s what Rush Limbaugh’s coach told him, just throw some dirt on it and get back in the game? Disclaimer, we can’t call that a medical treatment, that’s what people used to do before they ended up in hospitals, so now the government protects you from getting bad medical advice, and tells you to go to the hospitals where you might get a super bug, just to make sure you get “professional” care?

Wasn’t the NY Times writing articles about kids getting sick because they lived in sterile environments, and their immune systems were not trained to fight real threats, like they would if they played in dirt? Don’t worry, the government is here to protect you? Sign here?

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Interceptor911
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:05pm
For those saying that this has been around awhile, not really. This can be used for deep tissue injuries and should deffinately help save lives out in the field until they can get them back to surgery.

For those who read sci fi, the halo books have something like this they call biofoam. It can fill up the holes and stop the injured from bleeding out. Funny how so many things we take for granted today were once considered science fiction. This is great! Now if we can just get power armor and battle mechs.

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- Rbell2915
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 11:23pm
  The same exact thing came to mind when I was reading this article. I was thinking, “This is awfully familiar to biofoam in Halo” and you took the words right from, shall I say, my fingers.
  
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- stumpy68
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 11:41pm
  Battle armor on its way as soon as they figure the battery problem out.
  
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ktmrider1
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:59pm
hey! they should use this on joe biddens lips so he would quit saying stupid things, but then again he makes me laugh

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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:27pm
In luw of tha,t try instant pudding or jello powder

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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:59pm
  lieu
  
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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:18am
  Lou…
  
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GeeWhiz
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:25pm
It’s one thing to use something like this on superficial wounds, quite another to use it on deep and/or dirty wounds. Once you’ve done this, then what? How does it affect the tissues? What’s it made of? Could there be problems with absorption of chemicals?

I ask this because my first reaction is GREAT! My second reaction is ..wait, aren’t you trapping bacteria in the tissue under the gel?

I suppose if the alternative is bleeding out and death, then wth, but if that’s not the situation…

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:45pm
  It won’t replace a surgeon,thats for sure.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:45am
  I think that in a field expedient wound repair along the same idea of QuikClot. A person still has to be treated in a hospital.
  
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go2gym
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:17pm
That is aweome. Can we get a massive syringe and stop the economic bleeding?

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Carlinpa
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:20pm
This isn’t really all that ground breaking. A product like this has been on the market for 30 + yrs.. it’s called liquid band-aid or liquid skin…

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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:32pm
  Superglue.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:36pm
  This is instant band-aid x’s 10.
  
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battles
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:05pm
$900,000,000 and 5 to 10 years of required government testing and we should then see some lives being saved. But until it is proven completely safe, you will simply have to bleed to death.

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- Mojoron
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:18pm
  get a box of freeze-dried mashed potato’s, put some in a small bag. Next time somebody gets knifed throw some potato starch in the hole. It will do the same thing and it won’t have to get approved by the FDA. It’s used everyday in surgery to stop incidental bleeding.
  
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- nzkiwi
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:46pm
  Thank you very much for that tip, Mojo.
  
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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 10:00pm
  cornstarch on small cuts
  
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- lobster
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 1:25am
  Come on you are exaggerating, it won’t be a dime over $850,000,000. Welcome to big STUPID government. Some how we need to get back to the Constitution.
  
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Inkmage
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:00pm
Wonder Gel? What a lame name, they should have called it Medi-Gel, like on Mass Effect ^_^

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- circleDwagons
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:23pm
  I don’t care what they call it. Seems very useful. Of course all bleeding eventually stops :)
  
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- ALL4FREEDOM
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:21pm
  It DEFINITELY stops when you run out of blood…
  
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- Locked
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 8:32am
  They do call it Medi-Gel. As per the article: “Veti-Gel (also sometimes called Medi-Gel) is a synthetic form of the extracellular matrix”
  
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hi
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:58pm
Surfers can take that with them in case bitten by a shark.

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woodyee
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:47pm
Hmm, nice stuff…

…leave it up to Gaybama-care to folke it all up…

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- stumpy68
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 11:44pm
  Can you say hospital use only for a first aid
  product i hope im wrong.
  
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eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:22pm
Marco Rubio and the GOP are going to need a tanker full of this stuff to seal the massive gapping wounds that they have inflicted upon themselves by pushing their treasonous amnesty plan …

‘Senators agree on path to legal status for illegal immigrants’

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-immigration-hurdles-20130311,0,1484422,full.story

Rubio and the GOP have gone all-in and have sided with obama, against America.

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- CatB
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:32pm
  Well I tried to warn Rubio this weekend to quit the gang of eight .. his throw in with McCain and Graham will come back to haunt him .. and all the RINO’s signing on. Nothing should be done without the BORDER SECURE and E-Verify is being used by all.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:47pm
  That dirtbag thinks he’s got it made in 2016 because his last name is Rubio and he’s got an ‘R’ for party affiliation. Next thing you know, he’ll be asking McPain and Romney for advice on how to win presidential elections.
  
  They don’t listen very well, do they?
  
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- midcoastmainepatriot
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 8:08pm
  Rubio is fine you F#$%^& Trolls…… STFU and go play with at Huffpo, shitebirds
  
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- eat-more-bacon-USA
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 9:12pm
  @MIDCOASTMAINEPATRIOT – Un NO, it is not “FINE” that Rubio is working for obama – it is not “FINE” that Rubio is trying to ram through obama’s AMNESTY plan. Rubio is a TRAITOR.
  
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ltdan
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:07pm
I don’t believe there’s anything thing that can stop from economy from hemorrhaging, except for term limits.

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TheEDGE
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:07pm
Can we repackage this stuff and advertise it in blue states as a feminine hygiene product?

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NO_MORE_OBAMA
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:07pm
OH ya … I will be the first to pump that crap in my skin / cells.

NOT!

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- FROTHYDISCHARGE
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:21pm
  I know science scary. you hide in cave. we take gel. you no worry
  
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SaturdaysWarrior76
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:03pm
Soon… it will be banned, or regulated, or something. Medical advances are not allowed under “The Regime” But why worry? We’ve lived a good life… right? ;)

Seriously, this is pretty cool and exciting! It would be great to have in any first aid kit! And our Military can certainly benefit from this as well.

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sparkyrules
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:03pm
Amazing.Has anyone read Ray Kurweil lately?The Age of Spiritual Machines,is a starter,and recommended by Glenn Beck.Its not for all of us.We all over 50 know(or should) whats around the corner.

“He who loves to balance nice doubts need be in no hurry to decide the point. Like Mephistopheles to Faust, he can say to himself, “dazu hast du noch eine lange Frist” [for that you’ve got a long wait], for from generation to generation the reasons adduced on both sides will grow more voluminous, and the discussion more refined.-William A. Dembski
Consider, for instance, the following story: A man enters a bar. The bartender asks, “What can I do for you?” The man responds, “I’d like a glass of water.” The bartender pulls out a gun and shouts, “Get out of here!” The man says “thank you” and leaves. End of story. What is the appropriate frame of reference? No, this isn’t a story by Franz Kafka. The key item of information needed to make sense of this story is this: The man has the hiccups. By going to the bar to get a drink of water, the man hoped to cure his hiccups. The bartender, however, decided on a more radical cure. By terrifying the man with a gun, the bartender cured the man’s hiccups immediately. Cured of his hiccups, the man was grateful and left. Humans are able to understand the appropriate frame of reference for such stories immediately. Computers, on the other hand, haven’t a clue.
That thesis was in 1999.

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ZAP
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:46pm
They can apply it to the national debt

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ThorLoser
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:44pm
Quick! Pour some on the economy!

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tonypro
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:41pm
Would like to have some of this in my first aid kit.

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FalseFactBob
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:40pm
Works great when you burn the top of your mouth eating Hot Pockets. Although it tastes like teriyaki and smells like toes.

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- readyontheright
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:49pm
  If iI was bleeding profusely,it could smell like nancy pelosi’s toes and I’d PROBABLY still use it !!
  
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piper60
Posted on March 11, 2013 at 6:39pm
My husband is on blood thinners. I am really hoping that they approve this stuff.

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- Sapience
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:18pm
  You probably know about it already, but, have you looked into Quikclot? From what I gather, it’s fairly popular with folks on thinners.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:24pm
  Hi piper60,
  
  Check out this natural product. A friend of mine uses it instead of rat poison.
  
  http://www.nattokinase.org/
  
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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on March 11, 2013 at 7:48pm
  @Monk
  WOW. You have a plethora of information at your disposal. Glad you are around.
  
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