Imagine that you are bleeding profusely, with nothing to stop it, and you have no access to an ER. Now imagine that you apply a simple gel to your wound, and the bleeding ceases in mere seconds. A few minutes later you are fully healed.
That is the premise behind VetiGel, an algae-based polymer created by 17-year-old Joe Landolina inside his grandfather’s lab, according to AskMen.
Fast forward five years and now Landolina is the CEO of Suneris, a biotech company has taken that concept and has turned it into a safe, efficient and extremely effective way to heal wounds.
The science behind this extraordinary gel is surprisingly simple.
Each batch of gel begins as algae, made up of tiny individual polymers. When broken down into smaller pieces, “kind of like Lego blocks,” Landolina said, you can put them into the gel and then inject into a wound.
Upon hitting damaged tissue, the gel will instantly form a mesh-like structure.
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