The technique of keyhole surgery minimises scarring, speeds healing and reduces the risk of infection. However, it is extremely difficult to carry out delicate surgical procedures accurately in a ...

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 ...

Researchers have coated plastic and silk threads with temperature sensors and micro-heaters that monitor the wounds and help speed up healing. These electronic surgical sutures (pictured) contain ...

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, ...

Surgical sutures are mindless threads no more. Researchers have now coated them with sensors that could monitor wounds and speed up healing. The electronic sutures, which contain ultrathin silicon ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A smart suture that ties itself into the perfect knot kicks off the first of many potential medical applications for new biodegradable plastics with "shape memory" developed at MIT ...

Researchers have used a new biodegradable material to make surgical sutures that knot and tighten themselves as they warm to body temperature. The new material could help surgeons working in tight ...

The technique of keyhole surgery minimises scarring, speeds healing and reduces the risk of infection. However, it is extremely difficult to carry out delicate surgical procedures accurately in a ...