A gelatinous substance that would otherwise be waste from a nut often used to make herbal tea can be made into a hydrogel with all different biomedical uses, University of Chicago researchers recently ...

To help in the fight against antibiotic overuse and resistance, researchers have developed a new wound dressing material that ...

Researchers have developed a plant-based hydrogel to create shape-changing, navigable small-scale robots with potential applications in biomedicine, including conducting medical procedures and ...

Hydrogels can undergo a significant volume phase change or gel-sol phase transition in response to physical and chemical stimuli, including temperature, electric and magnetic fields, solvent ...

Microbial bioelectronic sensors use living bacteria that can create an electrical signal in response to the presence of a ...

Taking medications on time, in the right dose and for the prescribed duration can be challenging for patients, and failure to do so comes with steep costs, causing 10% of hospitalizations and billions ...

Sodium lithium magnesium fluorosilicate, dimethicone, sodium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride, sodium sulfate, water, hypochlorus acid, sodium hypochlorite; topical gel. To manage and ...

Scientists use carbonated water during low-methoxy pectin hydrogel synthesis to supply CO2 and study its impact on hydrogel formation and properties This research contributes to the United Nations' ...