An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new ...

Researchers found that a common antibiotic-resistant bacterium prevents wounds from healing by chemically paralyzing skin cells rather than attacking them directly. Scientists from an international ...

Researchers suggest that wound dressings infused with antioxidants such as catalase could be an effective future treatment.

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new ...

To confirm the central role of this process, the scientists used a genetically modified strain of E. faecalis lacking the EET ...

New research shows that a certain bug, Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis), can facilitate healing of hard-to-treat wounds among people with diabetes. While there are many studies done on potentially ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why some chronic wounds refuse to heal, even when treated with antibiotics. A ...

A team found that Enterococcus faecalis delays chronic wound healing by producing damaging reactive oxygen species.

Scientists may soon turn to bacteria originally found in feces to help cure chronic wounds more quickly. An open wound, for example, is a perfect little breeding pool for bacteria. But not all ...

Modern hospital care and antibiotics are not solely responsible for the antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains that exist today, according to a study published March 9 in Nature Communications.

Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden published a study “Breaking barriers: pCF10 type 4 secretion system relies on a self-regulating muramidase to modulate the cell wall” in mBIO that describes ...

PHILADELPHIA – There are many important reasons for keeping cuts and sores clean, but new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows that a certain bug, ...