A new bandage-type dressing for wounds, which has been made from plants, could be used to help them heal faster, a researcher in Oman has discovered … Saied Vakilian, a researcher at the Laboratory for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the Natural and Medical Sciences Research Centre at the University of Nizwa, led a team that used compounds made from two medicinal plants to help wounds heal faster … “This winning project aimed to evaluate a bioactive multilayer wound dressing based on chitosan and alginate,” said Vakilian … “To enhance healing potential, dracaena cinnabari and aloe vera were loaded as separate layers into the scaffold. The bare and bioactive multilayered scaffolds were fabricated by an iterative layering freeze-drying technique.” … read more