Bioactive glasses caused a revolution in healthcare and paved the way for modern
biomaterial-driven regenerative medicine. The first 45S5 glass composition, invented by …

The incorporation of gallium into bioactive materials has been reported to enhance
osteogenesis, to influence blood clotting, and to induce anti-cancer and anti-bacterial …

Which elements are essential for human life? Here we make an element-by-element journey
through the periodic table and attempt to assess whether elements are essential or not, and …

The human skeleton, made of 206 bones, plays vital roles including supporting the body,
protecting organs, enabling movement, and storing minerals. Bones are made of organic …

Infection, inflammation, tumors, and other illnesses have for a long time posed a major
danger to human health and have developed into a global public health issue. However, the …

Bioactive glasses (BAGs) were invented five decades ago and have been widely used
clinically in orthopedic and stomatology. However, in the past two decades, BAGs have …

Metallic materials have been used as antibacterial agents since antiquity. Gallium (Ga), an
abiogenic metal, has shown pharmaceutical effects in developing unconventional …

Tribo-electrochemical behavior in physiological solution of two β-type (100-x)(Ti-45Nb)-xGa
(x= 4, 8 wt%) alloys, alongside β-Ti-45Nb and medical grade Ti-6Al-4V ELI, was …

This work aims to investigate the structural, mechanical and electronic properties of four
novel β-type (100-x)(Ti–45Nb)-xGa alloys (x= 2, 4, 6, 8 wt%) for implant applications by …

While the occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is vanishing
current anti‐infective therapies, the antibiotic discovery pipeline is drying up. In the last …