Diabetes

Electric bandage holds promise for treating chronic wounds

Researchers have developed an inexpensive bandage that uses an electric field to promote healing in chronic wounds. In animal testing, wounds that were treated with these electric bandages healed 30% faster than wounds treated ...

Biomedical technology

How supercharged silk could help heal the heart

UNSW researchers have developed a new microgel made of moth silk that is designed to assist with tissue regeneration and could help people recover from heart attacks.

Neuroscience

In probing brain-behavior nexus, big datasets are better

When designing machine learning models, researchers first train the models to recognize data patterns and then test their effectiveness. But if the datasets used to train and test aren't sufficiently large, models may appear ...