Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. To detect wound complications as soon as they happen, researchers have invented a battery-free “smart suture” that can wirelessly sense ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The complex process of wound healing has long challenged medical professionals seeking to monitor recovery accurately and non-invasively. Traditional methods of assessing wound ...

An announcement on July 30 (Tue) details that a research team led by Professor Jaehong Lee at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology ...

An announcement on July 30 (Tue) details that a research team led by Professor Jaehong Lee at the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology ...

Tested on rats, the stitches proved effective in treating wounds and could offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional sutures. Study: A bioabsorbable ...

While they've been around for centuries in various forms and helped heal many a wound in the process, some scientists see a world of possibility when it comes to how sutures might help the human body.

Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with their stiff fibers. To remedy the problem, ...

A stitch in time might save a little more than nine now that researchers have successfully developed electronic sutures that monitor wounds and help speed up the healing process. Invented by John ...

Starting with fibers taken from pig tissue, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed dissolving sutures that can be loaded with molecular sensors or medication.