Stanford researchers recently announced promising animal studies for a hydrogel they developed to prevent post-surgery ...

Surgical adhesions—common, sometimes life-threatening complications that arise after open or laparoscopic abdominal surgery—can be prevented in mice and pigs by a gel impregnated with a ...

Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions -- abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel has now been shown to prevented adhesions in mice and pigs.

When tested in mice and minipigs, the T-5224-impregnated gel significantly reduced the formation of adhesions - scored from 0 to 5 by the degree of contact between neighboring tissues - by nearly ...