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Cool New Bandage Helps Wounds Heal Faster! 🩹

A company in India is making special bandages that help cuts and burns heal faster. 🩹

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Technology Development Board gave financial help.

Startup OrthoGraft will create advanced tissue bandages.

Bandages aim to treat chronic wounds, diabetic foot sores, and burns.

Company has two United States patents and works with research institutes.

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These bandages are made from tiny pieces of human tissue that are safe and clean.

The government gave money to help the company build a factory for these bandages.

Soon, doctors will be able to use them to help people with hard‑to‑heal wounds.

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Technology Development Board

India's group that gives money for new science projects

Department of Science and Technology

India's government department that supports scientific research

biological dressings

special bandages made from natural tissue to help wounds heal

tissue engineering

science of growing or making body parts in the lab

chronic wounds

wounds that take a long time to heal

diabetic foot ulcers

sores on the feet that people with diabetes can get

tensile strength

how strong something is when you pull on it

bioactive

something that works inside the body to help healing

Moisture Vapour Transmission Rate

how much water can pass through a bandage

incubator

a place that helps new companies grow

patents

legal rights that protect an invention

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