Surgical Gloves that Detect Bacteria
September 29, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
In another example of 3-D printing, engineers at Tufts University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have used a silk protein (fibroin) ink to create a fabric that can contain various substances, such as antibiotics, nanoparticles and proteins, and be fashioned into surgical gloves. When a glove that has been printed with bacteria-sensing polydiacetylenes is exposed to E. coli, a color change reveals “contaminated” on the finger. MORE
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