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The other day, Leon Polott cut his thumb on a metal hanger while picking up clothes at the dry cleaner.
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canada goose outlet parka Through a company in Cleveland called Sterionics Inc., Mr. Polott and his colleagues are working to commercialize a pen shaped device they believe will change the way health care providers treat wounds. canada goose outlet parka
From its tip, the device emits what looks like a blue spark, but it won’t start a fire. It’s cold plasma a semigaseous substance that kills even the toughest bacteria and helps wounds heal faster by promoting the growth of new skin cells, according to laboratory studies uk canada goose conducted by Akron General Health System and Kent State University.
Other studies back up that data, said Stephen Weeks, interim CEO of Sterionics, which licensed cold plasma technology developed at Petrozavodsk State University in northwestern Russia.
Russians have already tested it on humans, and it works, said Dr. Weeks, who used the pen on Mr. Polott’s cut thumb and this reporter’s index finger to prove that it doesn’t hurt. Food Drug Administration has yet to give any company the right to market Canada Goose Online cold plasma as a treatment for wounds, according to Dr. Weeks and Mr. Polott, president and CEO of 5iTech LLC in Cleveland, which provides product commercialization advisory services. It also creates companies that license existing technologies and works to turn them into products.
Among the Cleveland based startups 5iTech has created are Sterionics, eye treatment products developer Oculatek Inc. and Aria Analytics Inc., which is working to commercialize a device that can identify the Canada Goose Outlet makeup of liquids.
cheap canada goose gilet Other cold plasma devices exist, but the prototype developed by Sterionics, a 5iTech spinoff, has several advantages, they said. cheap canada goose gilet
canada goose outlet buffalo For one, it’s extremely portable. It uses the air around it as the raw material to create the plasma, while other cold plasma devices need to be attached Canada Goose Parka to a tank of gas. canada goose outlet buffalo
official canada goose outlet The pen shaped prototype which for now is housed in a gray plastic tube that once held a Sharpie marker is connected to a small box that provides the electricity needed to turn the air into plasma. However, Sterionics plans to develop a version that runs on household batteries, Mr. Polott said. official canada goose outlet
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canada goose cap uk Sterionics’ device also works on buy canada goose jacket cheap uneven surfaces, unlike some cold plasma devices. And it doesn’t use the patient as a ground for the electricity, which could canada goose black canada goose outlet friday sale cause problems for people with pacemakers, Mr. Polott said. canada goose cap uk
Even if all goes according to plan, it will be a few years before the device hits the market, Mr. Polott said. However, the company just received two grants that should allow it to take a few steps toward that goal.
The National Science Foundation in December awarded Sterionics a $150,000 grant the company will use Canada Goose Jackets to analyze how the device performs using feed gases other than Canada Goose Coats On Sale air, how long the plasma must be applied to the wound and how deep into the tissue it works.
Sterionics also received a $25,000 grant from the Akron BioInnovation Fund in late 2011. The company which works with both the cheap Canada Goose Magnet business incubator in Cleveland and the Akron Global Business Accelerator will use the money to test the device on animals at Akron General.
Cold plasma canada goose clearance sale technology could represent a big improvement over antibiotics and topical treatments that use silver, said Judy Fulton, director of wound research at Akron General. Unlike antibiotics, cold plasma doesn’t cause bacteria to become resistant to it, nor does it appear canada goose uk shop to cause significant side effects, Dr. Fulton said. And unlike silver dressings, canada goose coats on sale cold plasma can penetrate biofilms that groups of bacteria form to protect themselves, she said.
Cold plasma doesn’t appear to damage human tissue significantly, but Dr. Fulton noted that the plasma does emit ultraviolet light and other charged particles. More tests will be needed to figure out https://www.foekjedillema.nl dose levels that humans can tolerate.
But Dr. Fulton does know the bacteria can’t tolerate a whole lot.
pretty much kills everything, she said.
Akron General started testing the device on pieces of human tissue about four years ago, and a graduate student later continued that work as part of his dissertation at Kent State. The work was not paid for by Sterionics; the first set of tests was financed by the Akron General Foundation, Dr. Fulton said. A $25,000 grant from the Lorain County Community College Foundation’s Innovation Fund paid for microbiology testing at Kent State.
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