A staple on any engineer's workbench, duct tape is a quick and dependable fix for cracks and tears in many structural materials. MIT engineers have now developed a kind of surgical duct tape - a ...

Engineers have developed a kind of surgical 'duct tape.' The strong, flexible, and biocompatible sticky patch can be applied to biological tissues and organs to help seal tears and wounds. A staple on ...

As helpful as Band-Aids are, ripping them off your skin is never fun – but just imagine having one on your heart or lung. Researchers at MIT have now managed to create surgical tape that can stick to ...

Surgical stitches may one day be replaced by a double-sided sticky tape that can seal wounds together in as little as five seconds. Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists proved the tape ...