CBS News Philadelphia's health reporter Stephanie Salds joins us to explain how this works.

This is amazing.

It is amazing and very interesting and wait till you hear what it's made out of.

This is very interesting.

It is a new gel that is made from algae and some say the technology could transform trauma care.

This line is sized to produce about a quarter million syringes on a monthly basis.

What's happening here at this biomanufacturing facility could be a matter of life and death.

Inside these syringes, a new potentially life-saving gel that can stop severe bleeding in seconds.

It's called trauma gel.

One syringe will be enough to treat just about the largest bleed you can imagine.

Gunshot wounds, stabbings, motor vehicle accidents.

The inventor started the company out of his dorm room in 2010 when the young scientist stumbled on a gel that stuck to his skin.

I had this idea that what if you took that gel and put it into a bleeding bullet wound to get a patient from point A to point B without them bleeding out.

The gel is made from algae and has the consistency of hummus.

Once it comes into contact with a wound, it forms a mechanical barrier against bleeding and no manual pressure is required.

Blood loss and traumatic wounds is responsible for more than 35 percent of all pre-hospital deaths.

A product like this that's able to stop bleeding quickly and effectively can save countless lives.

Trauma gel is the company's second FDA clearance.

It already has a gel to treat minor cuts and scrapes and a veterinary gel for pets.

Federal go ahead for this new product is based on preclinical data.

It's expected to be rolled out to hospitals and EMS teams later this year and start saving lives.

And the gel is expected next to be used on battlefields and the company is also working to determine if it can help with traumatic brain injuries.

In a dorm room it starts with algae.

Talk about a super brain thinking of that, right?

Amazing.

All that time I wasted in college.

I know.

It was like a dorm room.

Really, I know.

Boy.

Amazing though.

It is.