Joe Landolina, NYU Student, Creates Healing Gel To Stop Bleeding

Veti-Gel, the name chosen by NYU student Joe Landolina, uses plant polymers to rapidly solidify when applied to open wounds, and by a bizarre coincidence was initially being developed under the name Medi-Gel, the name of a fictional healing gel from the Mass Effect video game series with almost identical properties.

Landolina took first place with Kenny Mai for his gel in a 2011 NYU-Polytechnic contest, which came with a cash prize and assistance in filing for a provisional patent.

Landolina has gone on to form a company, Suneris, Inc., to market and sell Veti-Gel. (Landolina told HuffPost that Mai left the company to concentrate on his studies.) If the gel works as well as Landolina says, Humans Invent reports the U.S. military would be interested in using it on the battlefield.

Cocaine Smuggler

In this Monday Sept. 12, 2011 image of a CAT scan released by Brazilian Federal Police on Sept. 16, 2011, bags loaded with cocaine are seen inside the body of an unidentified man after he was arrested at the Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Monday. According to a federal police press release, the man is identified as a young Irish male who tried 

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