{"id":696830,"date":"2026-07-17T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696830\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:23:09","slug":"how-a-plant-based-wound-dressing-could-fight-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696830\/","title":{"rendered":"How a plant-based wound dressing could fight infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bacteria can enter a wound and form a protective, slimy layer known as a biofilm within hours, which can slow healing and make infections harder to treat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Researchers said the development reduces the formation of biofilm by more than 90%, helping to fight infections before they take hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The body itself finds it really hard to fight back against the bacteria and it makes it much harder for the drugs that we use to get into that film to start to break it up and kill the bacteria as well,&#8221; said Prof Leese.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want to try to prevent that from forming as quickly as possible so we can ensure the wound can heal as effectively as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The newly created two-sided dressing works by releasing an effective concentration of antibiotics into the wound within four hours, while the other side acts as a barrier to maintain a protected healing environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Xiang Ding, the study&#8217;s lead author, added that the antibiotics released through the dressing will provide a barrier to protect the wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study, published in Bioactive Materials, is the first to use the family of sustainable furan-based polymers, previously explored for sustainable plastics and packaging, for infection-fighting wound dressings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bacteria can enter a wound and form a protective, slimy layer known as a biofilm within hours, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}