IOWA CITY, Iowa — A teen in Iowa won $25,000 at the Regeneron Science Talent Search for her invention of sutures that change colors to warn of possible infections. A senior at Iowa City West High ...

A biomedical engineer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to study using nanofiber sutures to deliver ...

A remarkable new study has recently overturned a commonly accepted notion regarding the durability of medical plastics, which has found that a typical hospital-acquired bacterium can actively degrade ...

Traditionally, punch biopsy sites have been sutured, but the benefit of this practice has never been scientifically demonstrated. In this prospective, randomized, method-comparison study, 82 healthy ...