Inspired by the sticky substance spiders use to catch their prey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have designed a special double-sided tape that can rapidly seal tissues together ...

“It’s very challenging to suture soft or fragile tissues such as the lung and trachea, but with our double-sided tape, within five seconds we can easily seal them,” says first author Hyunwoo ...

Scientists at MIT have developed what could be a better way to go, in the form of a double-sided tape. The idea is that pieces of the tape get placed between two surfaces that need to be joined ...

Spiders use a kind of sticky glue to catch their prey on rainy days A double-sided tape designed to stick body tissue together after surgery has been inspired by the way spiders exude "glue" to ...

The team at MIT was able to use the new double-sided tape to, within minutes, pull together damp rat and pig tissues including lungs and intestines. "There are over 230 million major surgeries all ...