Wounds have to be regularly checked, to make sure any complications in the healing process are detected at an early stage. A new material will make it possible to check wounds without changing the dressing: If an infection ...
Engineering
Nov 2, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss researchers have demonstrated how they can adjust process conditions to influence the properties of novel plasma polymer coatings containing silver nanoparticles. Tailor-made films can be generated ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 5, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Cranfield University have designed tiny particles that stop bacteria from communicating with each other in a bid to prevent spread of infection and disease.
Polymers
Jun 23, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Although bacterial infection as a clinical problem was reportedly defeated with the widespread use of antibiotics in the 1950s, its re-emergence over the last few decades has persuaded researchers to develop ...
Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University ...
Biotechnology
Nov 17, 2009
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In a presentation today (Aug. 19) to the American Chemical Society meeting, Ankit Agarwal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, described an experimental approach to wound healing that could take ...
Biochemistry
Aug 19, 2009
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