Sutures have seen some developments since their first reported use back in 3000 B.C. Egypt. Bone and silver needles have been replaced with steel. Silk and animal hair threads have been swapped for ...

Newly designed sutures not only stitch together a wound, but also sense inflammation and deliver therapeutic drugs 1. Jung Seung Lee and his colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...

Flexible electronics that work with the body have been advancing quickly, doing everything from measuring our blood oxygen levels through our skin to monitoring our muscles using a tattoo. Now, a team ...

A polypropylene barbed suture material is now available to allow oculoplastic surgeons to perform minimally invasive brow lift procedures. The self-anchoring Contour Threads, distributed by Surgical ...

Researchers have now coated sutures with sensors that could monitor wounds and speed up healing. The electronic sutures, which contain ultrathin silicon sensors integrated on polymer or silk strips, ...

A new type of surgical thread capable of gathering diagnostic data and communicating it wirelessly in real time has been developed. Surgical thread which can detect post-operative complications and ...