A 17-Year-Old Created A Potentially Life-Saving Sutures Concept To Prevent Post-Surgery Deaths - Blavity blavity.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from blavity.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Iowa high school student Dasia Taylor is winning acclaim and awards over an medical invention that has the potential to help millions: beet juice-infused sutures that change colour when in contact with an infected wound.
When the Press-Citizen spoke with her in January, Iowa City West student Dasia Taylor maintained she wasn t a scientist. But that hasn t kept the accolades from rolling in.
The most recent award was broadcast Monday, when the 17-year-old sat across from TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres and explained her invention. I set out to create cost-effective sutures that change color when an infection is present, Taylor said to DeGeneres at a taping of her show, which aired locally at 4 p.m. Monday on CBS. And hey, now I m here with you.
Taylor explained to DeGeneres how she became interested in the subject after her teacher, Carolyn Walling, introduced the class to the Society for Science & the Public s Regeneron Science Talent Search. Though sutures similar to Taylor s existed previously, they used technology that demanded a high price point.
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I want to introduce you to a very impressive young woman from the Corridor, who is going to make a difference in this world. After hearing what she s invented, and seeing her on The Ellen Degeneres Show on Monday, I have absolutely no doubt.
17-year-old Dasia Taylor of North Liberty, a student at Iowa City West High School, has invented low-cost stitches that change color when they detect infection. As she says during her appearance (below), a similar product already existed. There was just one problem. It used very expensive technology. Realizing the people who really needed something like this wouldn t be able to afford it, Dasia went to work to find a low-cost way to do virtually the same thing. That s exactly what she s done.