Duct tape is widely used for first aid as a sort of temporary suture.

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He's injured and here they won't attend to him simply because they don't have anything to suture him with.

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The cells that make the structures that hold tissues together are injected into a "bioreactor, " really a specially designed plastic box filled with netting made of suture material.

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But Naughton figured out a way to fool the cells into thinking they were in the body by suspending the cells on a three-dimensional net made of suture material.

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Tough as German reunification has been, it will look like a walk in the park compared with the task of trying to suture one of the world's most backward economies onto one of the world's most advanced.

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Eleven study subjects experienced a total of 23 serious adverse events, which included erosion of the conjunctiva (the clear covering of the eyeball), dehiscence (splitting open of a wound along the surgical suture), retinal detachment, inflammation, and hypotony (low intraocular pressure).

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The result, as they recently reported in Biomacromolecules, is that they can spin bovine serum albumin into long, even fibres that are perfect for creating both suture threads and thick mats similar to conventional wound dressings, but on a small scale.

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