If color drenching is the trendy baby of the family, then consider pattern drenching its timeless, wiser older sister. A design trick oft referred to as ‘à la Française,’ or in the manner of the ...

Wound closure in orthopaedic surgery is fundamental to patient recovery, influencing infection risk, mechanical integrity and scar appearance. Traditional methods include metallic staples and ...

Surgical or traumatic wounds require closing. Sutures are medical tools that help close a wound. They reduce the risk of infection and support the healing process. For example, a dentist who has to ...

An update on traditional “catgut” could sense inflammation after surgery and even deliver drugs. Inspired by a technology developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed “smart” sutures ...

Have you ever noticed the pattern of bricks on a building or a checkerboard pattern on a bathroom floor? If not, there’s a good chance your kid has! Lots of children love finding and creating patterns ...

A new shape called an einstein has taken the math world by storm. The craggy, hat-shaped tile can cover an infinite plane with patterns that never repeat. Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just ...

Infinitely many copies of a 13-sided shape can be arranged with no overlaps or gaps in a pattern that never repeats. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss (CC BY ...

1. The use of subcuticular sutures following elective hepatobiliary surgery could reduce the incidence of surgical-site infection compared to skin staples, although this finding was not statistically ...