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A low-cost biopolymer dressing to help heal chronic wounds
Tens of millions of patients around the world suffer from persistent and potentially life-threatening wounds. These chronic wounds, which are also a leading cause of amputation, have treatments, but the cost of existing wound dressings can prevent them from reaching people in need.
Now, a Michigan State University researcher is leading an international team of scientists to develop a low-cost, practical biopolymer dressing that helps heal these wounds.
The existing efficient technologies are far too expensive for most health care systems, greatly limiting their use in a timely manner. An economically accessible, practical and effective technology is needed.
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Do COVID-19 vaccines care whether you re female or male?
MSU researcher is studying, raising awareness about the role of sex in the efficacy of vaccines that make use of nanomedicine
If there’s one take-home message for the general public about the coronavirus vaccines approved in the U.S., it’s that they are remarkably effective.
MSU Assistant Professor Morteza Mahmoudi
But Michigan State University’s Morteza Mahmoudi is raising awareness about an important subtlety: The vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech appear to work slightly better for males than for females.
Both vaccines use tiny orbs, or nanoparticles, to deliver their active ingredients to cells in our immune systems. For years, Mahmoudi has been studying how and why nanomedicines therapies that use nanoparticles can affect patients differently based on their sex and he believes this could be a factor with the vaccines.