CUPERTINO, Calif., Dec. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced that it has signed an agreement to sell its LACTEL Absorbable Polymer (LACTEL) product line to Evonik, ...

CUPERTINO, Calif., Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced that the sale of the LACTEL product line to Evonik closed and the $15 million payment was received on ...

The University of Minnesota won several U.S. patents over the years as the result of a long-standing research collaboration on plastics with Dow Chemical Co., including such inventions as ...

The degradation rates of the polymers used in many medical devices are a function of both morphology and time. In the following exchange, Dennis Jamiolkowski, Distinguished Research Fellow at Ethicon ...

Medical devices made from bioresorbable polymers have already enjoyed a good deal of commercial success. Products like Ethicon’s Securestrap, a device used for mesh fixation in endoscopic procedures, ...

Biodegradable polymers are a type of polymer that exists both naturally and can be synthesized in laboratories. This special class of polymer is broken down naturally by microbial processes to produce ...