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Engineers develop surgical ‘duct tape’ as an alternative to sutures
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Engineers develop surgical ‘duct tape’ as an alternative to sutures

by Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain 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 strong, flexible, and biocompatible sticky patch that can be easily and...