News tagged with skin wounds

3D bio-printers to print skin and body parts

(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 ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

New plastics 'bleed' when cut or scratched — and then heal like human skin

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. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify new stem cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in the skin that acts surprisingly like certain stem cells found in embryos: both can generate fat, bone, cartilage, and even nerve cells. These newly-described ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Light-induced delivery of nitric oxide eradicates drug-resistant bacteria

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. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists identify molecule that inhibits stem cell differentiation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have now identified a molecule that helps stem cells know whether to self-renew to create more stem cells, or to differentiate into specialized, non-dividing adult skin cells.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Careful cleaning of children's skin wounds key to healing, regardless of antibiotic choice

When it comes to curing skin infected with the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), timely and proper wound cleaning and draining may be more important than the choice of ant ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Honey helps heal horses' wounds, researchers find

(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.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New technology could stamp out bacteria in persistent wounds

(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.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Size matters -- in virulent fungal spores -- and suggests ways to stop a killer

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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study Reveals New Role of Vitamin C in Skin Protection

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have uncovered a new role played by Vitamin C in protecting the skin.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Human stem cells promote healing of diabetic ulcers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Treatment of chronic wounds is a continuing clinical problem and socio-economic burden with diabetic foot ulcers alone costing the NHS £300 million a year. Scientists in Bristol have found ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Secret to healing chronic wounds might lie in tiny pieces of silent RNA

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.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Epigenetic signatures direct the repair potential of reprogrammed cells

A research team has identified epigenetic signatures, markers on DNA that control transient changes in gene expression, within reprogrammed skin cells. These signatures can predict the expression of a wound-healing protein ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast