{"id":391,"date":"2004-07-27T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2004-07-27T11:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2004-07-27T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2004-07-27T11:03:05","slug":"shrimp_bandages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Shrimp Bandages"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nIt was a couple of years ago, at least, that we first heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/archives\/shrimp-bandages-see-wartime-use-018277.php\">bandages being developed out of chitosan<\/a> and now it seems they&#8217;ve been put into service in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chitosan, derived from shrimp shells, carries a positive charge and bonds with a wound&#8217;s red blood cells (which are negatively charged) to form a clot in as short as 30 seconds. Made exclusively by HemCon, the bandages use shrimp shells from Iceland, are processed and freeze-dried in New Hampshire, assembled and packaged in Oregon, and sterilized in California. No word on when shrimp bandages will be available to consumers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a couple of years ago, at least, that we first heard about bandages being developed out of chitosan and now it seems they&#8217;ve been put into service in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chitosan, derived from shrimp shells, carries a positive charge and bonds with a wound&#8217;s red blood cells (which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}