Sentences with phrase «coated microspheres»

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Porous metal implants that were coated with the microspheres prevented infection in 100 percent of the 11 specimens.

Each microsphere is coated with collagen — a natural structural material — to provide a surface on which the stem and blood cells can anchor themselves and proliferate.

When DNA was added, it bound only to the hills, turning them into regions that could bind to microspheres coated in complementary DNA.

Next, they filled in the gaps between the microspheres with liquid styrene, which was not coated in the DNA binder.

For their atoms, the team used polystyrene microspheres — either 540 or 850 nanometres across, more than 2000 times bigger than real atoms — coated in a substance that binds to DNA.

By coating the implant in the antibiotic microspheres before placing it in the patient's joint, the antibiotics are delivered directly to the surgical site to help prevent bacteria from developing into an infection.

In studies to determine the efficacy of the microspheres, Clyburn and his team contaminated two metal implants with staphylococcus aureus bacteria and coated one in the microspheres before inserting them in animal models.