Caterpillars, called tobacco hornworms, can seal their wounds in a minute, which could open the doors for drug development for humans.
Scientists have been able to figure out the method used by caterpillars to clot their blood, a discovery which could have potential applications for human medicine.
The sealing of wounds by the caterpillar is done in two steps, as per senior author Dr Konstantin Kornev, a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Clemson University. The team also studied hemolymph’s flow properties further by placing a 10-micrometer-long nickel nanorod in a droplet of fresh hemolymph. When a rotating magnetic field caused the nanorod to spin, its lag relative to the magnetism gave an estimate of the hemolymph’s ability to hold the rod back through viscosity.
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