In one episode of the TV show "Star Trek: The Next Generation," Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stabbed in the chest but survives thanks to a device that stitches up wounds in his heart. Now, real ...

A pair of balloons and some glue can do the work of surgical stitches. Stitches — the wound closure method of choice for millennia — can be tricky to use in tight places. So Harvard University ...

Inspired by slug slime, scientists have developed a flexible adhesive that sticks to wet surfaces. This stretchy glue can be attached to a beating, bleeding heart and could someday replace stitches in ...

(Nanowerk News) Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly ...

A squirtable super glue that seals wounds in seconds could transform medical treatment in emergency situations like war zones, and enhance healing after surgery. The rest of this article is behind a ...

A new surgical adhesive is strong and flexible enough, and biocompatible enough, to be used to help patch heart defects, doing away with the need for sutures or stables. Developed by researchers at ...

Mussels can be a mouthwatering meal, but the chemistry that lets mussels stick to underwater surfaces may also provide a highly adhesive wound closure and more effective healing from surgery. Mussels ...

Surgery can be risky business, especially when it comes to getting sealed back up. Stitches, staples, and sutures are all foreign materials that have problems of their own. MeTro is a new type of ...

Two recent clinical studies from ZipLine Medical showed that its surgical wound closure system demonstrated improvements in both patient outcomes and overall costs compared to surgical staples. The ...

To describe a novel use of fibrin glue in managing leaking blebs and leaking wounds following trauma or surgery. We report eight patients, including three where intra-operative or immediate ...

A highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue that quickly seals wounds without the need for common staples or sutures could transform how surgeries are performed. A highly elastic and adhesive surgical ...