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Infections about prosthetic hip and knee joints are particularly difficult to tame.  One promising approach to this problem is now announced by Chinese bioengineers.  By combining hyaluronic acid, ionic silver, and black phosphorous, they created an hydrogel that is easily injected around joint prostheses and inhibits bacterial growth and troublesome inflammation while promoting healing.  This gel’s antibacterial properties, activated by its exposure to near infrared light, are powerful enough to kill the nasty Staphylococcus aureus.

 

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0121241

 

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