Current medical adhesives have their limitations. The materials for stitching up injuries and surgical wounds may have changed over the millennia, but the basic process of suturing tissue re... Read more
Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effective than the... Read more
Plastic or silk threads covered with temperature sensors and micro-heaters could keep tabs on infections and provide therapy. Surgical sutures are mindless threads no more. Researchers have... Read more
“We’re developing the future of suture” After a surgeon stitches up a patient’s abdomen, costly complications—some life-threatening—can occur. To cut down on these postoperative problems, Jo... Read more
Reconnecting severed blood vessels is mostly done the same way today — with sutures — as it was 100 years ago, when the French surgeon Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for advanci... Read more