Genetically-Modified Maggots Could Help Wounds Heal Faster
scientist at North Carolina State University are bring an 18th century wound handling into the twenty-first century . They ’ve genetically modified maggots to release a human growth factor to kick upstairs healing while they strip people ’s wounds . For some time , doctors have used the larvae of the green bottle tent-fly , Lucilia sericata , as discourse . The maggots eat beat tissue paper and leave living tissue alone ....