Polymer biofilms that improve implant survival have been created in the Russian Federation

Scientists from Siberian Federal University (SibFU) and St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technology, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) have tested several types of biopolymer films that can be used to manufacture implants in surgery. This was reported to Izvestia by the press service of the Ministry of Education and Science.

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During the study, experts identified those species that will contribute to the accelerated formation of new tissues in the human body, while causing a minimal reaction to a foreign body.

"The biopolymer is created by bacteria. Depending on what we feed these microorganisms, we get polymers of different compositions," Galina Ryltseva, co—author of the study, a junior researcher at the Laboratory of Biotechnology of New Biomaterials, an assistant at the Department of Medical Biology at SibFU, told Izvestia.

The scientists needed to create the most nature-like structure with the porosity, crystallinity, and relief that would most contribute to cell growth and the formation of healthy tissue around the implant, while reducing inflammation.

The tests were carried out on cell culture, and in the future, biopolymer films with different surface relief will be tested on living organisms.

Read more in the exclusive Izvestia article on Friday, March 21, at 10:00 a.m.:

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