When surgeons repair tissues, they’re currently limited to mechanical solutions like sutures and staples, which can cause their own damage, or meshes and glues that may not adequately bond with tissues and can be rejected by the body.Now, Tissium is offering surgeons a new solution based on a biopolymer technology first developed at MIT. The company’s flexible, biocompatible polymers conform to surrounding tissues, attaching to them in order to repair torn tissue after being activated using blue light.“Our goal is to make this technology the new standard in fixation,” says…
