Gas-Propelled Microparticles Travel Deep into Wounds to Stop Bleeding (2 of 4) (VIDEO)

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Movie shows the rapid propulsion and distribution of an agent when combined with a propellant (right) compared to without propellant (left). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 2 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.R. Baylis at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and colleagues was titled, "Self-propelled particles that transport cargo through flowing blood and halt hemorrhage."

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[Credit: Video taken by Ju Hun Yeon]

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