How can doctors make sure a dressed wound is healing without taking off the bandage? This is a conundrum, because removing a bandage can disrupt the healing process. Technology presented in a new study in open-access journal ...
General Physics
Oct 25, 2021
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Bandages are great for covering wounds, but they would be much more useful if they could also detect infections.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 25, 2021
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Researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Harvard Medical School and MIT have designed a smart bandage that could eventually heal chronic wounds or battlefield injuries with every fiber of its being.
Engineering
Oct 5, 2017
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Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, are developing a new type of bandage that does far more than stanch the bleeding from a paper cut or scraped knee. Thanks to advances in flexible electronics, the researchers, ...
Engineering
Mar 17, 2015
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Inspired by a desire to help wounded soldiers, an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Conor L. Evans at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 1, 2014
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(Phys.org)—Band-aid technology has made incremental improvements in the years since its commercial introduction in the late 1960s, the most important of which has been the incorporation of antibiotics ...
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 4, 2012
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