Trauma surgeon Annie Onishi shows WIRED contributor Peter Rubin how to tie various forms of surgical knots. Annie demonstrates the techniques behind a one-handed knot using different types of sutures ...

For medical students, tying surgical knots is a foundational skill. But when Marco Istasy, a third-year medical student at the University of Toronto, was hunting for a knot-tying board to help him ...

Researchers have unearthed a robust physics-based mechanism that dictates the sliding strength, or resistance to slippage, of the most common type of surgical knot. In particular, they have found that ...

Cor‑Knot (LSI Solutions) is a single-use device to replace hand-tied surgical knots in valve surgery, including open and minimally invasive mitral valve repair, and aortic valve replacement. The ...

Think about the last time you tied your shoe: maybe you tied it tightly, or tied multiple knots to ensure the laces wouldn’t come undone. You likely relied on intuition to tell you how much tension to ...