This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection

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Dr. Jason Johnson
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That's ingenious....

Yashar Ali 🐘
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This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection

After winning a state science fair and becoming a finalist in a national competition, Dasia Taylor now has her sights set on a patent

https://smithsonianmag.com/innovation/high-schooler-invented-color-changing-sutures-detect-infection-180977345/

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1. Brilliant. A simple game changer. nt

[Baked Potato]

2. Hope it works out good for her!

[ripcord]

3. I was an inventer in high school

I invented a beer bong where the tube ran through ice, I loved the 70s.

[Lochloosa]

5. I made a bong in chemistry using a distilling flask. Glass funnel.

It would hold 1/4 ounce. Only two people lit it without coughing. Both ran track. I do miss the 70's.

Didn't hold beer. 😁

[WA-03 Democrat]

4. Smart

Visual confirmation saves a lot of time

[Me.]

6. Bravo

[DesertRat]

8. How cool!

k&r

[electric_blue68]

9. Fascinating! It'll be such a help. Kudos to her!

[Midnight Writer]

10. If she doesn't have a patent, she better be getting one.

Now this is public, anyone can take it.

[UpInArms]

11. What an awesome 17 year old!

“I've done a lot of racial equity work in my community, I've been a guest speaker at several conferences,” says Taylor. “So when I was presented with this opportunity to do research, I couldn't help but go at it with an equity lens.”

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Taylor spent most of her time after school in the Black History Game Show, a club she’s been a member of since eighth grade, and attending weekly school board and district meetings to advocate for an anti-racist curriculum. For the four months leading up to her first regional science fair in February 2020, Taylor committed Friday afternoons to research under the guidance of her chemistry teacher, Carolyn Walling. “I've done a lot of racial equity work in my community, I've been a guest speaker at several conferences,” says Taylor. “So when I was presented with this opportunity to do research, I couldn't help but go at it with an equity lens.”

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Taylor spent most of her time after school in the Black History Game Show, a club she’s been a member of since eighth grade, and attending weekly school board and district meetings to advocate for an anti-racist curriculum. For the four months leading up to her first regional science fair in February 2020, Taylor committed Friday afternoons to research under the guidance of her chemistry teacher, Carolyn Walling.

[momta]

12. I could have used this invention last year.

I had to have surgery on a broken ankle. Incisions on both sides of my ankle developed staph infections, and took forever to heal.

[a kennedy]

13. Damn right a game changer. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[Javaman]

14. that's actually brilliant. :) nt

[Operaweeble]

15. Wow! Good job! I hope she can corner the market on this!

[marble falls]

16. Great stuff!

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Excellent!

There are anthocyanins (various substitutions on the main functional group).
It operates in nearly the same range as bromothymol blue, which was used for years in labs.
But, low levels of anthocyanins have antioxidant properties, so there's less concern about toxicity.
Very important, given the application this young lady has come up with.
She sounds like quite the go-getter!

[Hortensis]

18. :) Why didn't I think of that?! She needs to get that patent

because I at least expect it to be used next time we need stitching.