A team of chemical fiber and polymer material researchers in China has found that the use of internally produced, electrically charged sutures can speed up the healing process after surgery in rats. In their study published in Nature Communications, the group developed a type of suture that generates its own electricity while inside the body and tested it in a lab setting and in live rats.
Stitches with internally produced electric charge found to speed up wound healing in rats
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