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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Cairo - Hazem Badr

UNCOVERED: Scientists develop electrically charged patch for faster wound healing - Caught on Camera

A child shows her adhesive bandage after being inoculated with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during the vaccine rollout for children with comorbidities, in Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines, October 15, 2021. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David

A team of researchers working at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China has developed an electrically charged thin film patch for promoting faster wound healing.

In their paper published in the Science Advances journal, the group describes their patch, how it works, and how well it performed when tested on rats.

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