Countless lives have been prolonged and improved with medical implants like pacemakers and replacement hips. But such operations also carry the risk that infection-causing microbes may grow on the implant and the immune system may reject the foreign object.
biolfilm composition
Despite having several layers, the new biofilm is only a few hundred nanometers thick and invisible to the naked eye.
Image credit: Inserm/E. Falette

Now, an Inserm team from Strasbourg University in France has succeeded in creating a biofilm that protects against such infection.

The biomaterials and bioengineering researchers describe their work in the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials.

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