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 ...

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 ...

An international research team led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has achieved a breakthrough in the field 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 ...

From plaque sticking to teeth to scum on a pond, biofilms can be found nearly everywhere. These colonies of bacteria grow on ...

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.

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 ...

This study presents a multifunctional nanocomposite coating for catheters, enhancing infection resistance with bioactive and biodegradable materials.

The U.S. FDA gave the green light to Nanosonics Ltd.’s Coris system via de novo clearance for reducing infection risk by delivering improved cleaning outcomes for flexible endoscopes, especially the ...

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