Unfortunately, the fierce mandibles of termite soldiers cause injuries that, if infected, can turn fatal. Ants back at the nest rush to the injured and can tell which wounds are infected.

By Ben Coxworth January 02, 2024 A Matabele ant tends to the wounds of a fellow ant whose legs were bitten off by termites Erik Frank / Universität Würzburg View 2 Images ...

Non-infected wounds have a pH value of about 5.5. When an infection occurs, the wound becomes increasingly basic and may have a pH value of 8, or even higher.

It's ironic that in order to check if a wound is becoming infected, doctors may end up setting back the healing process by removing the dressing. An experimental new dressing is designed to help ...

Matabele ants might be able to diagnose and treat infected wounds The antibiotic compounds in their saliva could potentially help scientists find new treatments. Laura Baisas Jan 3, 2024 12:00 PM EST ...

Now, they think they’ve solved this mystery. In the new study, scientists compared the chemicals produced by ants with infected and uninfected wounds.

A right-hand dominant man in his 50s who, six weeks previously, had undergone washout of a volar thumb wound, presented to the plastic surgery clinic with a one week history of erythematous cutaneous ...

The researchers capitalized on the pH change that occurs in an infected wound to create their color-changing dressing. A non-infected wound has a pH of around 5.5, which becomes basic when infected ...

Published (DOI: 10.1093/burnst/tkaf037) in Burns & Trauma in May 2025, the study demonstrates the hydrogel's ability to accelerate wound closure, promote angiogenesis, and reduce inflammation in ...

A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of infection without interfering with the healing process has been developed by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden. Their study ...