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June 1, 2015

A spray-on foam made of crustacea exoskeletons that stops severe bleeding.

The NSF-funded small business Remedium Technologies is developing a product called Hemogrip, a handheld, lightweight canister that delivers an expanding hemostatic biopolymer foam for the rapid treatment of hemorrhage within a body cavity. Remedium is one of nearly 40 NSF grantees exhibiting at the 2015 BIO Innovation Zone, an exhibit space dedicated to businesses with cutting-edge biomedical technologies supported by NSF's Directorate for Engineering.

Credit: Remedium Technologies

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