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>>Kevin Kit Parker: It turns out that when you do a surgery on a baby inside the womb,
when the baby is born, there is no scar because there is a certain class of proteins that
causes a scarless wound healing in the baby. And so we figured, hey, listen, if we can
take these same proteins and we can make nanofibers, can we make wound dressings out of these proteins
in such a way that we don't have these debilitating scars that can heal faster, less infections
and they will also get hair regrowth? So it turned out that we did. We were able
to do that. And the early animal studies are showing that we are putting these things down
on rodents and we are getting all this. You can see over here on the right when you take
a look at the histology, you can see that we are getting hair follicles early on. The
wounds are closed with no infection. The whole idea is to develop a set of wound dressings
so we can take this beautiful child and make her fell as good about herself as we feel
about her. So the other issue I had was I don't like
getting shot at, and it was happening a lot in 2009 when I was over there.
And one of the reasons why is because the Army had made this decision that they were
going to make one camouflage pattern that was going to be good for all environments.
How many of you have ever used a universal tool? A tool that's good for everything? Your
careers are finite. [ Laughter ]
>>Kevin Kit Parker: So we're wearing this camouflage uniform. I make a joke out of it,
but people were getting killed. Folks were getting shot wearing this camouflage over
there. I mean, you stuck out. Look at that. That doesn't fit in there.
And so I started thinking about camouflage. This was a $1 billion mistake made by the
U.S. Army. And right after October 1st, you are going to see the announcement of another
camouflage pattern that they are going to replace this. They had Congressional hearings
about this. This was bad. I was only slightly less conspicuous than
if I had a road flare duct taped to my forehead out there.
And it turned out that all of the services had decided with all their flush -- all the
flush money they had from the war on terror that they were going to develop all different
camouflage patterns so now every service has their own camouflage pattern.
So there is a couple things that you see right away here. First of all, that there is -- obviously
the same science is not behind all these camouflage patterns. And second of all, some of these
services are making a fashion statement in their camouflage pattern.