Novel Suture Systems: An Accelerated Wound‐Healing Surgical Suture Engineered with an Extracellular Matrix (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 6/2021)

During surgery to suture injured tissue, friction occurs at the interface between the tissue and the suture, which often causes serious “secondary trauma” to fragile tissue and can lead to inflammation and infection. In article number 2001686, Kwanwoo Shin and co-workers develope a novel surgical suture system that accelerates wound healing. The presence of fibronectin fibrils on the engineered sutures improves cell migration and adhesion in wound tissues, especially while minimizing friction at the surgery site.