On diabetic foot, wound healing, amputation prevention, and the merger of consumer tech with medical devices
Amputated tissue from the sea cucumber Psolus fabricii healed its own wounds and kept living in plain, non-sterile seawater for more than three years. Jobson et al. in Science Advances on "natural tissue immortality" — and why a wound-healing surgeon can't look away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Laa2LiS2E Prof. Sinclair and Matthew LaPlante talk on extending healthspan- with a discussion on wound healing and the diabetic foot / DFU as cancer / amputation prevention at 16:26 On epidermal thinning, cellular senescence and foot ulcers- #ActAgainstAmputation with our friend and colleague Prof. David Sinclair.
For those who have been asking, here is the video, now available on YouTube and iTunesU. https://youtu.be/HHoGZ4qZTfs here is a manuscript revisiting this 13 years later Repair, Regeneration, and Replacement, Revisited (Redux) Armstrong, et al, J Diab Sci Technology
