Medicine
Topical Antimicrobial Peptides for Chronic Wound Biofilms
Quick fact
Topical antimicrobial peptides, naturally produced by your own immune system, can dismantle biofilms in chronic wounds by both disrupting the bacterial membrane and breaking down the sticky extracellular matrix that holds the biofilm together—an approach that standard antibiotics often fail to achieve.
Why this is interesting
Your skin is home to millions of bacteria. In a chronic wound, these bacteria can form a fortress called a biofilm, making them up to 1000 times more resistant to antibiotics. So how do we break through?