Disclaimer: This is not medical advice. Don't try this at home without expert supervision. On Tuesday in the small storefront of the Best Made Company in Tribeca, a young ER doctor spent two hours ...

Stitching a patient back together after surgery is a vital but monotonous task for medics, often requiring them to repeat the same simple movements over and over hundreds of times. But thanks to a ...

Introduction: Endoscopic hand suturing (EHS) has emerged as a promising modality in gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopic procedures. Reports on its effectiveness in clinical practice remain limited due to ...

Surgeries with the endoscope are exacting and require special capabilities of the surgeon. The suturing of the tissue and the setting of the knots, in particular, is very complicated due to the lack ...

“You can use thread, dental floss, even the hair from a horse’s tail,” says Cheryl Lowry, a physician and deputy director at the Center for Polar Medical Operations at the University of Texas Medical ...

A certain medical dye will stick together when hit by a laser, effectively suturing a wound without the need for staples or traditional sutures. But the dye will only penetrate as deep as the light ...

The robot was able to sew six stitches all on its own—and has lessons for robotics as a whole. An AI-trained surgical robot that can make a few stitches on its own is a small step toward systems that ...

For the first time in Canada, doctors at Vancouver General Hospital successfully sutured a patient using a new Overstitch device. “It’s very important,” Dr. Roberto Trasolini, a therapeutic ...

Surgical staplers are commonly used in surgery, especially in visceral surgery. Today, it seems impossible to perform procedures without them. Also, the development of laparoscopic surgery would not ...

Surgery — a profession filled with great hands, quick minds and big egos — may have a new star in its midst. The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, or STAR, combines off-the-shelf robotic hardware, ...