17 Year-Old Developed Sutures that Detect Early Infection.
December 30, 2021 by The Foundation for a Better Life
17 Year-Old, Daisia Taylor Developed Sutures that Detect Early Infection. She believes the best solutions are the ones that help the most people. Her focus now is getting the color-changing sutures to developing countries.
Dasia Taylor is your typical high school student, with one exception. She cares about the rest of the world — and she’s doing something about it.
Dasia became very interested in science because of how it benefits people. When she started chemistry class last year, she sat in the front row, wanting to absorb as much as possible, not knowing yet how she might apply her altruism. When the teacher announced the upcoming science fair, Dasia was all in. She stayed after school and pored through science and medical magazines, looking for an idea.
Then she found an article on sutures that change color when an infection is present. The so-called smart stitches work, but the technology is too expensive for developing countries, where infections in surgical incisions are a major cause of new illnesses and even death.
There had to be a solution that would make it to the people who needed it most. “I said, hey, I can do it better,” remembers Dasia.
Dasia looks at science from a different perspective. Not having a million-dollar laboratory makes you look for solutions in new places. Dasia describes her project as “a novel suture additive.”
That novel additive is beet juice. For six months, Dasia stayed after school, cutting and boiling beets and soaking sutures in the mixture. Beet juice is organic, and it changes color when human tissue changes pH levels during an infection. That means patients and doctors can see when an infection is starting before it gets out of hand. And treating an infection early can be the key to beating it.
Often, we think of high schoolers as being too young to solve the world’s problems. But there are a lot of kids out there like Dasia. It might be time to let them give it a try.
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Daisia Fantastic Well done.
Wow! My faith in our future adults in the science community has been restored! Good job, Ms. Taylor! :-)
such creativity / taking something we know and moving it into the high ground where it is so needed/ you have a bright future/ yeahhhhhhh
Amazing vision and capability to think beyond horizons
Thank you, Daisia, for your heart, your effort and for giving so many of us hope for our future! Wishing you the very best as you keep applying your creativity and great mind to caring for others!
This is wonderful news. Thank you to Daisia Taylor.
The joy of Life's Treasures when I read your story Dasia. You were blessed with a fine gift and I thank God for your sincerity. I wish you a Happy New Year!
Wow-she has an incredible future ahead!
Think of the suffering her idea will spare people and the lives she will have saved. Most of the time I am disappointed with humanity but Dasia has renewed my faith. Well done Smart Girl!! YOU ARE AWESOME! 😁 Blessing upon you for all of your days.
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