Biomaterial from fungal extract helps heal wounds

Scientists have developed a new biomaterial that can be used to disinfect wounds and hastens the process of healing.

About Pullulan Polymer:

• The biomaterial is derived from the polymer pullulan which is secreted by the fungus Aureobasidium pullulans.
• It is an exopolysaccharide, that is, this polymer is secreted by the fungus itself into the medium on which it is growing.
• Pullulan as a biomaterial is already successful and widely used commercially. It is exploited in food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industry because of its non-toxic, non-mutagenic and non-immunogenic properties.
• Pullulan is basically a polymeric chain of glucose. 
• Scientists processed the polymer to get a powder which is water-soluble.
• This solution can be applied on the wound surface and then covered with a sterile gauze.