Scientists in Singapore transform fruit leftovers into antibacterial bandages By Travis Teo and Lee Ying Shan September 20, 20219:53 AM PDTUpdated September 20, 2021 ...

Bandages with antimicrobial properties use metallic compounds like silver or copper ions. The new hydrogel is cheaper than synthetic materials approved for use in biomedical applications.

Food Waste Durian Rind-Derived Cellulose Organohydrogels: Toward Anti-Freezing and Antimicrobial Wound Dressing. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2021; 9 (3): 1304 DOI: 10.1021 ...

Researchers in China and Germany have engineered a leaf-inspired smart bandage that integrates blueberry-derived anthocyanins ...

We have a dressing that can expand onto your wound and seal it shut, but at the same time, once it's done its job, you can remove it very easily." Reducing infections and next steps ...

A conversation over a meal at Panera Bread with one of her best friends led Mahshid Eghbali, a food and nutritional-sciences ...

Additionally, he states that while existing antimicrobial wound dressings begin to lose their bacteria-killing effect after a few days, lab tests have shown that the magnesium hydroxide bandage ...

Madison-based Imbed Biosciences, a biotech company making antimicrobial and antifungal bandages for soft tissue repairs, has closed a $4 million round of venture capital funding to commercialize ...

With antimicrobial bandages it is important to assess their effectiveness. In order to assess the effectiveness of the coatings experimental data must be gathered to show that the chemical, in ...

U.S. soldiers wounded on patrol could soon find fast relief: The Army has begun testing the ability of a "bioelectric bandage" to ease pain, kill infectious microbes and speed up healing.

The researchers say using waste materials and yeast for the antimicrobial bandages is more cost-effective than the production of conventional bandages, whose antimicrobial properties come from ...

(Reuters) – Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore are tackling food waste by turning discarded durian husks into antibacterial gel bandages. The process extracts ...