Blood is a very precious liquid, without it, our bodies would not exist. An average human will contain approximately 5 liters of blood which makes it about 7% of our total body weight.

Every single drop of this red liquid contains important substances that feed and maintain our body. Think of the body as a city and blood as the cars on the freeway, cruising to their destinations and back. Our blood’s task is to supply our bodily cells with nutrients, hormones, sugar, and oxygen and carry the used waste away that will eventually be flushed out via our urine, sweat, lungs etc. Our blood also contains white cells that act as policemen to harmful diseases, protecting and serving, keeping us healthy.

A discovery has been made that could save millions of lives in a form of a gel.This gel is made of a matrix of protein that adapts to where it is applied to, for example: If it’s placed on your skin then it will rebuild itself with the properties it is applied to your skin.

At the moment, stopping a large amount of blood is its main purpose and it does a pretty good job at it too, it has the ability to stop a large area under 1 minute. When applied to a wound it creates a sealing barrier, no matter the size, sealing the whole area and assuring that nothing leaks.

This technology could be used in trauma cases, vascular surgery or any instance where blood loss is critical. Unfortunately, this product is not public yet because it produces a lot of fiber which is the cause of blood clotting.But at the moment it’s used to save the lives of animals and is underway of becoming human-friendly for medical practices and military operations with future prospects of wound healing, burn treatment and other applications.

To have a better understanding of how this innovative products works, view the TED talk from Joe Landolina a young, full-time student and inventor from NYU.