Engineers have designed tissue-derived 'smart' sutures that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. The sutures are coated with hydrogels that can be ...

Sutures are filaments, fibers or thread-like materials used to hold a wound or tissue together. In surgical language, sutures are used for apposition – that is, the positioning (of tissue) side by ...

Sutures are used to help close cuts and wounds and start the healing process. Because of the materials it is made of, sutures can be too stiff and potentially damage soft tissue. A research team has ...

A team of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed “smart” sutures with the potential to benefit Crohn’s disease patients undergoing surgery, and could also have ...

Following abdominal surgeries like appendectomies, one in five patients’ abdominal wounds reopen because the dissolvable sutures lose their strength too quickly. The result can be a higher risk of ...

Surgeries, major or minor, virtually always require sutures—but they can prove uncomfortable and painful, or even become infected. Now, a spray-on film of biodegradable polymer nanofibers could ...