Medical devices are indispensable in modern healthcare, providing life-saving treatments and improving the quality of life ...

The report runs an in-depth analysis of market trends, key players, and future opportunities. In general, the antimicrobial ...

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

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

In a breakthrough study, microbiologists at Brunel University London discovered that Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common and ...

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 lot of medical students at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences conduct research during the summer after their first year of medical school, but not many get to be co-authors of an ...

“If a pathogen can degrade plastic, then it could compromise plastic-containing medical devices such as sutures ... the enzyme increased the amount of biofilm formed when P.

But not just any plastic. It can break down polycaprolactone (PCL) — a biodegradable polymer widely used in medical implants ...