Kayley✨

Agricultural Economics TAMU '18 #GigEm 👍🏼

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You ain't had a real reader girl before.

A kindle doll. A Libby lady. A daughter of the library.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Hope this makes your day a little better

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

A massive bison pushes forward through the winter snow, its broad face and thick, shaggy coat crusted with frost and ice. Natural insulation gives bison the strength to use their powerful heads and shoulders like snowplows to move through deep drifts.

Photo by Marc Bouldoukian

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

"let me ask chat gpt"
me:

[Rebecca 📖 @Avonleebythesea]

This is the sort of sculpture we need more of. Things that enhance their surrounding, bring joy, whimsy, elegance.

[BriAnne 🌸💕 @brihindthescene]

Guys I'm sobbing a local woman passed away in September and her husband/family rented a whole store at the mall to show off her Christmas decorations 😭 nothing is for sale it's literally just so everyone can see it and it's so beautiful I love love

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@LostandLuna A heart still breaks by Knox

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@OldSchoolUK @diorvijane Actually is a book already written

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@diorvijane

[kay @softxlumax]

me everytime they mention or show len goodman. he is very much missed. #dwts

[Carl Dungca @VZnet]

“I want to talk to the network: This show is setting ratings records again. So next season, bring back the results show. Let the whole country vote!”

Hear, hear, Tom! Back to two nights a week!
#DWTS

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@elaine4animals @Dance10Alan I literally had chills watching y’all dance tonight! 🥹🥹 (also y’all were absolutely robbed last week!! You made me miss the trio dances even more than I already did!)

[Dancing with the Stars #DWTS @officialdwts]

Something has changed within us because of Elaine Hendrix and Alan Bersten’s thrillifying #WickedNight Contemporary! 🧹🤩 #DWTS

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

I need these to be released on blu-ray with director’s commentary, behind the scenes, and a gag reel😆

[bones⚡️ @tzpstorrie]

thinking about how we only got one “baby” in rwrb because taylor and nick couldn’t keep a straight face saying it face to face but need them to get it together (affectionately) so we can get more firstprince calling each other “baby” in the sequel https://t.co/9ZEZvV5LPK

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@AlaniNutrition Cherry slush and juicy peach 💋

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@tru_fru You can tell me, I won’t tell anyone🤭

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@ekelleydesign Hey someone posted a link that’s selling your design. Sharing so you know

https://t.co/B29B5wtSzL

[Kayley✨ @KayleyHolder]

@tru_fru Elizabeth Taylor and Father Figure