In surgical procedures, the last knot of a suture is crucial because it must hold the wound firmly in place to allow proper ...

This week, the international scientific journal 'Nature' features the unraveling process of a 'slipknot.' A slipknot is a type of knot that can be easily undone by pulling on its ends. Scientists have ...

Think about the last time you tied your shoe: maybe you tied it tightly, or tied multiple knots to ensure the laces wouldn’t come undone. You likely relied on intuition to tell you how much tension to ...

A research team from Zhejiang University in China has developed a technology enabling surgical robots to precisely suture ...

Hilton Head Island resident and retired anesthesiologist Alan Grogono sits in his garage at the Wexford Plantation on March 20, 2014. Staff photo An inventor and innovator, Alan Grogono is the kind of ...