Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students recently took first prize in the university’s Design Day 2009 competition for showing a method that can be used to place a patient’s adult stem cells into sutures. Sutures (for instance Ethicon suture Covidien suture, Autosuture) is the surgical needle that is used to close wounds by medical professionals. Suture needles are used to sew sutures to the tissue. ethicon surgical stapler recall This specific technique that embeds adult stem cells in surgical thread was designed to treat serious orthopedic injuries , such as ruptured tendon. The goal of this technique is to improve the healing process, by reducing inflammation and speeding healing by releasing…