HANGZHOU, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- "Why not tie a slipknot?" A mechanical scientist proposed this simple idea to surgeons in a lab at east China's Zhejiang University. That innovation, which seemed almost ...

For the inexperienced individual, learning surgical techniques can be taxing. The authors developed a rodent surgery dry lab training program to assist educational and research institutions in ...

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 ...

In medical dramas, surgeries end with a shot of tying off the suture. It is not as simple as thinking the biggest hurdles are cleared after removing the lesion and reconnecting blood vessels or nerves ...