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Researchers aim to give new layer of protection to medical devices

Researchers at NUI Galway & QUB investigate how sugar molecules attached to plastics could give medical devices a new layer of protection

Researchers at NUI Galway & QUB investigate how sugar molecules attached to plastics could give medical devices a new layer of protection
Dr Joseph Byrne holding a polymer hydrogel, like those being developed in this research. Credit – Aengus McMahon.

Researchers at NUI Galway and Queen’s University Belfast are investigating how attaching sugar molecules to plastics could give medical devices a new layer of protection from infection.

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