Acoustic streaming generated by ultrasound-activated cilia to clean stents and catheters. (Courtesy: Pedro Amado and Cornel ...

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 eradicating such films, however, using tiny remote-control liquid ...

Biofilms can also form on implantable medical devices. Devices that partially penetrate the skin, such as a central venous catheter, can become coated with bacterial biofilms. Biofilms can form on ...

They are believed to cause millions of infections every year, leading to deaths, illness and higher health care costs, including for people with implanted medical devices. Biofilms are particularly ...

In medical settings, biofilms make infections harder to treat when they form protective shields for bacteria on devices like catheters and implants. UC Riverside scientists have now discovered a ...

Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time—and some of nature's tiniest organisms may ...

Tap water is not sterile, and using it in home medical devices can result in serious ... areas that like to stick to pipes called biofilm pathogens,” Miko said. Several cases of brain-eating ...

More information: Pedro Amado et al, Ultrasound-activated cilia for biofilm control in indwelling medical devices, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.

Covering stents with hairlike structures called cilia may help keep the implanted medical tubes clean ... and flush out substances stuck to the devices. Crystallized compounds and a sticky ...

A team of scientists from the University of Liverpool has won a Medical Futures Award for a fluorescence-based device they say can identify early caries and biofilm before it is visible to the human ...