Wounds and Healing News

April 18, 2024

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Wound Treatment Gel Fights the Battle Against Antibacterial Resistance

Apr. 2, 2024 — Polymer-based hydrogels are used to treat skin ailments and in tissue engineering because of their ability to retain water, deliver drugs into wounds, and biodegrade. However, they are complicated to manufacture and not very resilient to external ...

Discovery Has Potential to Solve the Billion-Dollar Global Cost of Poorly Managed Wound Healing

Mar. 27, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered a key step in the wound healing process that becomes disabled in diseases like diabetes and aging, contributing to a global healthcare cost of managing poorly healing wounds ...

Healing Eyes With Contact Lenses

Mar. 21, 2024 — A cross-disciplinary team has developed a new contact lens material that could act as a bandage for corneal wounds while releasing drugs in a controlled manner to help the eye heal ...

Revolutionary Chronic Wound Treatment Could Help Millions

Mar. 13, 2024 — An effective treatment for chronic wounds that does not involve antibiotics, but an ionised gas to activate a wound dressing, has been developed by a team of international ...

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A Sprayable Gel Could Make Minimally Invasive Surgeries Simpler and Safer

Mar. 12, 2024 — The new GastroShield gel can be sprayed through an endoscope after polyps are removed during colonoscopy, protecting the gut and helping prevent complications from weakened gastrointestinal ...

Wound-Homing Molecule Accelerates Tissue Repair

Feb. 14, 2024 — Medical researchers have found a peptide which, when administered intravenously, homes in on the new blood vessels that are forming in damaged tissue. The peptide has been used as a delivery vehicle ...

Nanofiber Bandages Fight Infection, Speed Healing

Feb. 8, 2024 — Researchers have identified a new way to harness the antioxidant and antibacterial properties of a botanical compound to make nanofiber-coated cotton bandages that fight infection and help wounds ...

Small RNAs Take on the Big Task of Helping Skin Wounds Heal Better and Faster With Minimal Scarring

Feb. 1, 2024 — New findings report that a class of small RNAs (microRNAs), microRNA-29, can restore normal skin structure rather than producing a wound closure by a ...

New Study Examines the Relationship Between the Rate of Wound Healing, the Circadian Rhythm, and 'Hair' on Cells

Dec. 21, 2023 — Nearly every organism on Earth follows a natural circadian rhythm that is coded by your cell's clock genes, which do exactly as you suspect from the ...

Revolutionary Seaweed and Carbonated Water Based Hydrogel for Treating Skin Wounds

Dec. 15, 2023 — Hydrogels have demonstrated promise for effectively treating skin wounds. However, currently available hydrogels adhere to the skin and swell when ...

NUS Scientists Develop Innovative Magnetic Gel That Heals Diabetic Wounds Three Times Faster

Oct. 19, 2023 — A team of researchers has engineered an innovative magnetic wound-healing gel that promises to heal diabetic wounds three times faster, reduce the ...

New Wound Healing Research Produces Full Thickness Human Bioprinted Skin

Oct. 4, 2023 — A research article presents a significant breakthrough in the area of skin regeneration and wound ...

Ultrathin Nanotech Promises to Help Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

Sep. 12, 2023 — Researchers have invented a nano-thin superbug-slaying material that could one day be integrated into wound dressings and implants to prevent or heal bacterial infections. The innovation -- which has ...

Breakthrough in Scarless Wound Recovery Achieved With Autologous Blood

Sep. 6, 2023 — A recent study has introduced a groundbreaking milestone in tissue regeneration by developing a technology that utilizes autologous blood to produce three-dimensional microvascular ...

Protein Found in Milk Speeds Up Wound Healing

July 26, 2023 — Bandages infused with casein, a protein that occurs naturally in cow's milk, significantly improved wound healing in rats compared to those in control groups, according to a new study by ...

How Diabetes Slows Healing in the Eye

July 18, 2023 — Investigators have provided new understanding of how diabetes delays wound healing in the eye, identifying for the first time two related disease-associated changes to the ...

Historical Medicine Suggests a New Way to Use Modern Treatments

July 12, 2023 — The mixture of honey and vinegar, also known as oxymel, has been used as a medical treatment throughout history and now scientists have established that this combination could have modern ...

Innovative Paper-Like, Battery-Free, AI-Enabled Sensor for Holistic Wound Monitoring

June 26, 2023 — Scientists have invented a paper-like, battery-free, AI-enabled sensor patch -- PETAL -- for convenient and effective monitoring of wound recovery. This novel technology provides early warning of ...

A 'Spy' in the Belly

June 15, 2023 — To ensure that wounds remain tightly sealed in the abdomen after surgery, researchers have developed a patch with a sensor function. The polymer patch warns before the occurrence of dangerous leaks ...

PAINTing a Wound-Healing Ink Into Cuts With a 3D-Printing Pen

June 1, 2023 — The body is pretty good at healing itself, though more severe wounds can require bandages or stitches. But researchers have now developed a wound-healing ink that can actively encourage the body to ...

New Type of Drug Candidate Effectively Accelerates Wound Healing in Clinical Study

May 30, 2023 — Complicated, hard-to-heal wounds are a growing medical problem and there are currently only two drugs approved with proven efficacy. In a new study on humans, researchers show that treatment with a ...

Breaking Through Bacterial Barriers in Chronic Treatment-Resistant Wounds

May 22, 2023 — Using a new strategy, researchers were able to reduce the challenging MRSA infection in the wounds of diabetic mice by 94%. They were able to completely sterilize the wounds in several of the mice, ...

Engineers Design Sutures That Can Deliver Drugs or Sense Inflammation

May 16, 2023 — Engineers have designed tissue-derived 'smart' sutures that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. The sutures are coated with hydrogels that can ...

Researchers Reveal an Ancient Mechanism for Wound Repair

Apr. 24, 2023 — The study is the first to identify a damage response pathway that is distinct from but parallel to the classical pathway triggered by ...

The Wound Dressing That Can Reveal Infection

Apr. 18, 2023 — A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of infection without interfering with the healing process has been ...

How Electricity Can Heal Wounds Three Times as Fast

Apr. 18, 2023 — Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly -- in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers have developed a method ...

Healing the Unhealable: New Approach Helps Bones Mend Themselves

Apr. 14, 2023 — Young babies and newborn mice can naturally heal damage to the bones that form the top of the skull, but this ability is lost in adults. Researchers developed a novel approach that promoted bone ...

Surgical Sealing Made Better With Robust Thermosensitive Bioadhesives

Mar. 29, 2023 — Scientists have employed inventive chemistry to produce an injectable biomaterial with significantly improved adhesive strength, stretchability, and toughness. This chemically modified, gelatin-based ...

Scientists See Anti-Aging Potential in an Invasive Weed

Mar. 30, 2023 — The fruit of the cocklebur plant, which grows worldwide and is often considered a noxious weed, has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory components that could make it useful as a skin protectant, ...

Simulating Cuts and Burns Reveals Wound Healing and Clearing Power of Fibroblasts

Mar. 14, 2023 — Researchers create a biomimetic model to study wound healing in burn and laceration wounds. The team designed an in vitro model system made of fibroblasts embedded in a collagen hydrogel. Wounds were ...

First Transient Electronic Bandage Speeds Healing by 30%

Feb. 22, 2023 — Researchers have developed a small, flexible, stretchable bandage that accelerates healing by delivering electrotherapy directly to the wound site. The bandage also actively monitors the healing ...

Smart Stitches Could Reduce Infection and Simplify Post Op Monitoring

Feb. 1, 2023 — A new antimicrobial suture material that glows in medical imaging could provide a promising alternative for mesh implants and internal ...

New Spray Fights Infections and Antibiotic Resistance

Jan. 26, 2023 — The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks antibiotic resistance as one of the top ten threats to global health. There is therefore a great need for new solutions to tackle resistant bacteria and ...

Hydrogel Injections Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections After Hip, Knee Replacements

Jan. 10, 2023 — Researchers develop an injectable hydrogel that treats infections around prosthetics without the problems caused by current treatments. The black phosphorus-enhanced gel has a porous structure, ...