Say ‘goodbye’ to needles and sutures: Here's all you need to know about skin glue, the modern wound closure catalysing efficiency with aesthetic enhancement For a long time, doctors have ...

They call it "cellular glue" and say it could one ... or crawl between the tightly bound cells of skin or organ tissues to reach a pathogen or a wound." To make this kind of customization possible ...

Adhesive molecules are found naturally throughout ... to flow through blood vessels or crawl between the tightly bound cells of skin or organ tissues to reach a pathogen or a wound. To direct that ...

a product combining fish-skin graft with silicone backing to treat surgical and trauma wounds. There are two variants ...

In one experiment, a film of the viscin-based adhesive was successfully used to seal wounds cut into non-living pig skin. While that film was flexible enough to move with the skin without breaking ...

This is an “outstanding advance in soft and adhesive hydrogels for intimate contact with skin and to promote wound healing,” says Jun Fu, a polymer chemist at Sun Yat-sen University.

First, it’s far more efficient when the cut skin edges are brought together, hence the use of stitches, staples, or adhesive strips for larger or wider wounds. In some cases, specially ...

Mussels have long been known for the adhesive they produce ... Ordinarily in skin grafting surgery, a piece of healthy skin is attached over a wound site utilizing either sutures or staples ...

Recently, a Korean research team has drawn attention for developing a bioadhesive based on the mussel adhesive protein (MAP) that enables quick healing of wounds with minimum scarring. Skin ...