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"He is rightly celebrated internationally for his innovative and pioneering approach, including his introduction of the B-Lynch suture, which is still being used today."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Veterinarians rehydrate it with saline solution before surgery, then lay it over a dog's corneal lesion and suture it into place, where it acts as scaffolding for regenerating cells.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2023

The unexpected finding led the team to hypothesize that another type of bone-forming stem cell was driving the abnormal suture fusion.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023

Pointing her elbows toward the ceiling, she revealed the suture scars where she was patched up.

From Reuters ● May 13, 2023

"Go back upstairs and get Dr. Sokel and tell him to bring some tweezers, disinfectant, and suture material. Move it!"

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

Medical applications include wound dressings, drug delivery systems, and resorbable implants or sutures that slowly degrade inside the body.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Cuba’s once highly regarded medical services have deteriorated, so Mariño has bought all her own medical supplies for the birth of her daughter, including sutures and surgical tape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

He had 28-day-old sutures he contemplated removing himself because they itched so badly.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025

John bragged about my sutures to everybody in boot camp and then asked me to demonstrate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

I’ve lost my composure in front of a stranger, and ripped open the sutures of my Bas-shaped wound, all over again, because they never seem to heal.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

The team ruptured then sutured the Achilles tendon of lab rats.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

During the embalming process, the body is cleaned and the mouth sutured closed.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

Rodriguez could now follow the contour of the tube with a surgical device that sequentially cut, stapled and sutured stomach tissue.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

When this happens, doctors may recommend surgical treatments, such as a heart transplant or implantation of mechanical pumps that are sutured into the patient’s heart to help pump blood throughout the body.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2022

The first creature looked like the top half of a miniature giraffe sutured onto the bottom half of a donkey.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

In the medical area, adhesives play a crucial role, from suturing internal wounds to attaching sensors and implanting medical devices.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

“He was suturing in his sleep,” she says.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2023

Some involve injecting cardiomyocytes into the heart wall, others require suturing patches made from cells directly onto the heart.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023

She released a 14-minute short film suturing together tracks from across “Jazz Codes,” and it captures the album’s feeling of defiance and reinvention.

From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

At age thirty-nine he’d already invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together, and had used it to perform the first coronary bypass and develop methods for transplanting organs.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot