Healing gel

“A hydrogel that incorporates billions of bacteriophages forms a material that is self-healing and also offers antibacterial services for medical and environmental applications. Researchers at McMaster University, Canada, cultivated 300 trillion of the virus-killing organisms into one milliliter of gel.“   See the video with this piece: “Viruses self-assemble into antibacterial gel.”  MORE WITH VIDEO

Image Credit: J.D. Howell/McMaster University