A 17-year-old invented an ingenious way to instantly stop bleeding

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When injected into a wound site, the gel can form a clot within 12 seconds and permanently heal the wound within minutes, Landolina says. If you break those polymers down into even tinier pieces, "kind of like Lego blocks," Landolina says, you can put them into the gel and inject that gel into a wound site. "What that means, on the one hand, is that the gel will make a very strong adhesive that holds the wound together," Landolina says. Landolina says Suneris has its sights set on a US rollout first, followed by a release in Europe and Asia sometime early next year.