Researchers at Koç University in Turkey have created a specialized wound dressing that incorporates a sensor capable of continuously measuring the pH of the wound environment, offering a new approach to tracking healing in both acute and chronic wounds. The […]
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Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have developed a promising new approach to treating severe burns and wounds using a living gel that can be injected or 3D-printed directly into damaged skin. Dubbed “skin in a syringe,” the technology combines
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Researchers at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT), working with Ruijin Hospital, have developed an advanced wound dressing that could greatly improve healing for burn victims and trauma patients. It’s made from bacterial cellulose, a breathable and skin-friendly material, and enhanced with human-derived
Artificial blood has long been a biomedical moonshot—promising a scalable, donor-free solution to global shortages, but consistently stalling at the cellular level. Now, researchers at the University of Konstanz and Queen Mary University of London have uncovered a key molecular
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Chronic wounds—those that linger for months or even years—are more than just a medical nuisance. They’re a global health burden, costing billions annually and affecting millions of people with diabetes, circulatory disorders, or immune dysfunction. The problem isn’t just that
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A young child facing septic shock and failure of five organ systems was saved by a first-of-its-kind therapeutic device developed at Michigan Medicine. The child, a leukemia patient with a prior kidney transplant, arrived at the emergency room with a
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A groundbreaking bioengineered skin graft developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center has demonstrated remarkable healing properties in preclinical trials. Designed using the patient’s own cells, this innovative graft is more stable, flexible, and robust than
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