http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (Phys.org) -- Swiss researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plaster that accelerates wound healing and is easily removed from the wound at any time. Burn victims in particular may profit from this invention in the future. http://phys.org/news257674025.html Chemistry Thu, 31 May 2012 09:30:01 EST news257674025 Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a novel approach for eradicating drug-resistant bacteria from wounds and skin infections, using light to trigger the controlled release of nitric oxide. The UCSC team developed a photoactive compound that releases nitric oxide when exposed to light, and loaded it into a porous, biocompatible material that could be applied as a sprayable powder. http://phys.org/news257602091.html Chemistry Wed, 30 May 2012 13:20:01 EST news257602091 UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and shape that they are. Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other conditions, a better understanding of how they form and behave could have wide implications. http://phys.org/news257176756.html Other Sciences Fri, 25 May 2012 14:59:26 EST news257176756 The human brain is not very well-equipped for analysing multidimensional data. In his doctoral dissertation, Mikko Berg, M.Sc. (Tech.) examined how graphical visualizations can help people to understand complex data. One of the starting points of his work were the visualizations used in the online candidate selectors of MTV3 that placed candidates with similar opinions close to each other on a graphical map. http://phys.org/news255940761.html Other Sciences Fri, 11 May 2012 07:39:28 EST news255940761 (Phys.org) -- Clinicians who treat severe wounds may soon have powerful new diagnostic tools in the form of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) devices, calibrated to new NIST standard reference spectra, which will provide unprecedented perspective on the physiology of tissue injury and healing. http://phys.org/news253177181.html Physics Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:00:20 EST news253177181 A new genre of plastics that mimic the human skin's ability to heal scratches and cuts offers the promise of endowing cell phones, laptops, cars and other products with self-repairing surfaces, scientists reported today. The team's lead researcher described the plastics, which change color to warn of wounds and heal themselves when exposed to light, here today at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. http://phys.org/news251999241.html Chemistry Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:47:33 EST news251999241 (AP) -- A federal court judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35-year-old rule that would stop farmers from mixing popular antibiotics into animal feed, a practice which is widely believed to have led to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria. http://phys.org/news251751794.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:03:23 EST news251751794 (PhysOrg.com) -- For most mammals, small cuts and scrapes to the skin during times of low body temperature or slowed metabolism usually means a reduced ability to heal and a higher incidence of infection. This is why a discovery by a team of scientists studying bears in Minnesota is so surprising. They have found, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Integrative Zoology that black bears who incur small cuts to the skin have an adaption that allows for wound healing during hibernation that results in little to no infection and hardly any scarring. http://phys.org/news251530983.html Biology Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:43:18 EST news251530983 Manuka honey could help clear chronic wound infections and even prevent them from developing in the first place, according to a new study published in Microbiology. The findings provide further evidence for the clinical use of manuka honey to treat bacterial infections in the face of growing antibiotic resistance. http://phys.org/news247248581.html Biology Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:00:01 EST news247248581 (PhysOrg.com) -- A simple application of honey to horses' leg wounds results in smaller wound sizes and faster healing time, University of Sydney researchers have found. http://phys.org/news228574555.html Biology Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:56:12 EST news228574555 Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have found that larger fungal spores can be more lethal. Their findings about two different spore sizes of the fungus Mucor circinelloides, a pathogen that kills half or more of its victims, could help to develop new treatments and fight other types of fungal infections. http://phys.org/news227463817.html Biology Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:10:01 EST news227463817 (PhysOrg.com) -- Using an advanced form of a rubber stamp, researchers have developed a way to adhere an ultra-thin antibacterial coating to a wound. http://phys.org/news221207009.html Nanotechnology Tue, 05 Apr 2011 07:24:30 EST news221207009 Researchers at King's College London and Osaka University in Japan have identified specific bone marrow cells that can transform into skin cells to repair damaged skin tissue, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). http://phys.org/news221151512.html Medicine & Health Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:59:02 EST news221151512 (PhysOrg.com) -- The range of uses for three-dimensional printers is increasing all the time, but now scientists are developing 3D "bioprinters" that will be able to print out skin, cartilage, bone, and other body parts. http://phys.org/news217746224.html Technology Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:50:01 EST news217746224 A low cost, nanometer-sized drug to treat chronic wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers or burns, has been developed by a group of scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harvard Medical School and others in the U.S. and Japan. http://phys.org/news216297886.html Chemistry Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:45:23 EST news216297886 Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel system for delivery of growth factors to chronic wounds such as pressure sores and diabetic foot ulcers. In their work published in the Jan. 18 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team from the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM) reports fabricating nanospheres containing keratinocyte growth factor (KGF), a protein known to play an important role in wound healing, fused with elastin-like peptides. When suspended in a fibrin gel, these nanoparticles improved the healing of deep skin wounds in diabetic mice. http://phys.org/news215258486.html Nanotechnology Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:20:06 EST news215258486 The most common connective tissue cell in animals is the fibroblast, which plays an important role in healing wounds. But Dr. Neta Erez of Tel Aviv University's Sackler Faculty of Medicine has now demonstrated that fibroblasts can also do a body great harm, helping to "recruit" immune cells for tumor growth. http://phys.org/news215258246.html Medicine & Health Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:57:37 EST news215258246 Blocking fragments of the sugar molecule hyaluronan that triggers inflammation could be the key to robust healing and less scarring in deep wounds, Canadian researchers reported at the American Society for Cell Biology's 50th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. http://phys.org/news211377746.html Medicine & Health Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:02:36 EST news211377746 Wounds have to be regularly checked, to make sure any complications in the healing process are detected at an early stage. A new material will make it possible to check wounds without changing the dressing: If an infection arises, the material changes its color. http://phys.org/news207934905.html Technology Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:41:52 EST news207934905 An antibacterial peptide developed by Laszlo Otvos, a research professor of biology in Temple's College of Science and Technology, looks to be a highly-effective therapy against infections in burn or blast wounds suffered by soldiers. http://phys.org/news202455611.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:20:02 EST news202455611 Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old "Iceman", may not have died at the site in the Italian Alps where he was found 19 years ago, but was only ceremonially buried there, according to a new theory revealed on Thursday. http://phys.org/news202063671.html Other Sciences Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:48:19 EST news202063671 (PhysOrg.com) -- Soldiers in combat suffer massive wounds to bone and tissue quite unlike most injuries that civilian doctors treat. Explosive blasts, rarely encountered in civilian life, cause about 2/3 of the injuries in Iraq. Musculoskeletal injuries account for about 70% of war wounds, and 55% of those are wounds to the arms and legs. Fractures account for 26% of combat injuries. http://phys.org/news195980219.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:20:01 EST news195980219 Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered that an unexpected cellular response plays an important role in breaking down and inhibiting the formation of excess scar tissue in wound healing. http://phys.org/news195403443.html Biology Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:44:17 EST news195403443 A new discovery about the wound-healing process could lead to better treatments for diabetics and other patients who have wounds that are slow to heal. http://phys.org/news190693027.html Medicine & Health Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:17:25 EST news190693027 Scientists have determined that chronic wounds might have trouble healing because of the actions of a tiny piece of a molecular structure in cells known as RNA. http://phys.org/news188497286.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:21:41 EST news188497286 Bacteria that infect chronic wounds can be deadly to maggot 'biosurgeons' used to treat the lesions, show researchers writing in the journal Microbiology. The findings could lead to more effective treatment of wounds and the development of novel antibiotics. http://phys.org/news184534795.html Biology Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:00:01 EST news184534795 Listening in on bacterial conversations could be the solution for improving chronic wound care, says a team of researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Their findings have been published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology. http://phys.org/news181839670.html Biology Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:02:06 EST news181839670 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic wounds, including venous leg ulcers which are caused by poor circulation in the veins of the legs, are difficult and expensive to treat. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed the first targeted, short-term delivery method using gene transfer technology to effectively treat venous leg ulcers. http://phys.org/news179085687.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:30:01 EST news179085687 Despite advances in treatment regimens and the best efforts of nurses and doctors, about 70% of all people with severe burns die from related infections. But a revolutionary new wound dressing developed at Tel Aviv University could cut that number dramatically. http://phys.org/news177692716.html Biology Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:50:03 EST news177692716 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists expect a new mathematical model of chronic wound healing could replace intuition with clear guidance on how to test treatment strategies in tackling a major public-health problem. http://phys.org/news172766940.html Other Sciences Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:49:22 EST news172766940