{"id":219361,"date":"2025-08-04T04:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/fda-approves-light-activated-polymer-for-nerve-repair-without-stitches"},"modified":"2025-08-04T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:04:08","slug":"fda-approves-light-activated-polymer-for-nerve-repair-without-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/fda-approves-light-activated-polymer-for-nerve-repair-without-stitches","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves light-activated polymer for nerve repair without stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-approves-light-activated-polymer-for-nerve-repair-without-stitches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new system for nerve repair based on light-activated polymers rather than surgical stitches. The flexible polymer system was developed by the medical technology company Tissium, which was founded over a decade ago to commercialize research from the laboratories of Jeffrey M. Karp and Bob Langer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Approval is the first for firm Tissium, which was founded over a decade ago by <a href=\"https:\/\/cen.acs.org\/staffDirectory.html\" rel=\"author\" class=\"\"> Laura Howes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new system for nerve repair based on light-activated polymers rather than surgical stitches. The flexible polymer system was developed by the medical technology company Tissium, which was founded over a decade ago to commercialize research from the laboratories of Jeffrey M. Karp and Bob Langer at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}