Can Plasma Heal Wounds Faster? A ...
Can Plasma Heal Wounds Faster? A DARPA Cartoon, an FDA Story, and Why Korea Has It and We Don't
Chat with Greg Fridman by Gregory Fridman
Sep 17, 2026
08:21
Episode notes

Next in the "Can Plasma?" series: can plasma heal wounds faster than pharma? Yes, for scrapes and cuts (not gunshot wounds, not broken hearts). Three parts: the dual mechanism, where it's already approved, and why it's not mainstream in the US yet.

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00:00 The question, and what kind of wound we mean

00:29 A mother of a 5-year-old's definition: scrapes, cuts, capillary bleeding

00:55 3 things to cover today

01:17 A funny story: how my career in plasma medicine started

01:32 A lunch-and-learn at a medical school by Dr. Satava, DARPA program director for directed energy medicine

01:57 His talk: medicine of 2030 (delivered in the very early 2000s)

02:11 The cartoon he showed at the end, made by EA Sports for DARPA

02:20 Military of the future: self-guiding bullets, night vision, seeing  ...