Bandage that Monitors Healing
February 16, 2021 | Terry Sharrer
“The electroanalytical wound sensors — built on carbon ultra microelectrode arrays (CUAs) on flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates — can monitor for biomarkers associated with the healing process,” according to researchers in Russia and Texas. “[They] looked at three biomarkers including pyocyanin, a byproduct of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is a bacterium that colonizes chronic wounds; nitric oxide, which is an indicator of bacterial infections in immune system cells; and uric acid, which is a metabolite associated with wound severity.” MORE
Image Credit: Olja Simoska et al/ACS sensors