Hydrogels are squishy, biofriendly materials made mostly of water and a bit of polymer. The Jell-O-like substance is ...
A smart hydrogel bandage healed nearly 90 per cent of burn wounds in seven days, offering faster recovery, fewer dressing ...
The durian is a strange-looking tropical fruit with a greenish-yellow exterior covered completely in spikes. Food scientists from NTU Singapore have used the discarded husks of the tropical fruit to ...
A new type of wound dressing might change burn care for the better with one amazing property: dissolvability. Surgically debriding burn wounds can be tedious for doctors and excruciating for patients.
Overuse of antibiotics is contributing to the growing global health crisis of antibiotic resistance, which may render one of doctors’ most important weapons against infections ineffective. A new wound ...
The process of healing burns is a painful one that requires meticulous care. Burn care specialists use the skin peeling ...
(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 cellulose ...