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World’s first smart bandage detects multiple biomarkers for onsite chronic wound monitoring
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World’s first smart bandage detects multiple biomarkers for onsite chronic wound monitoring

by  National University of Singapore Credit: National University of Singapore A research team led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck from the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Health Innovation & Technology (iHealthtech), in collaboration with clinical partners from Singapore General Hospital, has developed a smart wearable sensor that can conduct...

Experimental chronic wound dressing made from human protein
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Experimental chronic wound dressing made from human protein

The dressing could be applied to complex wounds such as venous ulcers, leg ulcers or foot ulcersFraunhofer IMWSVIEW 2 IMAGES If you’re trying to make a wound dressing that will be well-tolerated by the human body, you may be best off using human-derived materials. That’s the approach that German researchers have taken, creating a tropoelastin-based bandage. Tropoelastin...