Researchers have developed a new technique to heal wounds three times faster using electric stimulation—a breakthrough that could prove to be of significant value to people suffering from disorders like diabetes.
“In order to study exactly how this works for wounds, we developed a kind of biochip on which we cultured skin cells, which we then made tiny wounds in. Then we stimulated one wound with an electric field, which clearly led to it healing three times as fast as the wound that healed without electric stimulation,” said Maria Asplund, associate professor of bioelectronics at Chalmers University of Technology and head researcher, according to an April 18 press release.
