It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of ...

The peptide-based technology effectively eliminates biofilms and can be applied to a wide range of medical devices to reduce healthcare-associated infections. Healthcare-associated infections ...

Thus, the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies used to fight acute infections are not effective in eradicating medical device biofilm-related infections or chronic biofilm diseases. Today ...

Garwood have exclusively licensed a technology developed by UB researcher Dr. Mark Ehrensberger that can disrupt bacterial biofilms. In partnership with UB they are developing a medical device that ...

Medical implants inside the human body that lack immune protection are highly susceptible to biofilm infections. Traditional antibiotic therapy struggles to penetrate biofilm barriers, while ...

explaining that biofilm is a slimy bacterial layer that clings to surfaces. In a medical setting, this film can make it harder to treat infections when they form on devices like catheters and ...

Biofilms—slimy communities of bacteria—grow on all sorts of surfaces: from glaciers and hot springs to plant roots, your bathtub and fridge, wounds, and medical devices such as catheters.

It would be expected that such materials, by preventing biofilm formation and hence ... innovative breakthroughs in the fight against medical-device-associated infections. Such materials can ...

One of the major advances in modern medicine has been the introduction of artificial devices into medical care, including dental and orthopaedic implants and ... which by virtue of their ...

Known as phage therapy, it uses viruses to kill harmful bacteria in difficult-to-treat infections. Read more at ...

Researchers at the Wyss Institute have developed a coating technology that improves the longevity of implantable and wearable ...