jayskii🫧

my forehead big. | GO BIRDS DH💚🦅|

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

currently💞🤭

[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.

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@Beeb0011 @forallcurious sometimes people go home with stitches and it would be helpful for people without medical knowledge so they have an identifier of infection before it gets worse.

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@backagain205 Thank you!💚

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

Did i mention i’m 24?🤭 4/24💚

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@mthrlessfthrfgr thank you!💚

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@SugarRayFan12 i’m an angel!

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@khidanerd thank you !!💞

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@PlaymakerXV arguing that because a woman wouldn’t want to date a bisexual man , she’s lying about them not being totally gay is a stupid ass argument. It is a preference & it doesn’t negate the fact that a bisexual man is NOT gay

[cassie @cassiee1919]

does ANYTHING please them?

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

my birthday in 15 days

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@chantgod i think actually having people understand your hair down to the science is a good thing. if they’re not licensed they don’t know how to properly care for your hair. there’s are laws and regulations for a reason.

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@UltraMK_Elle @BlondeOfWar i work with old people and let me tell you..they aren’t weak, i have a vet with alzheimer’s confined to a wheelchair who has the grip of death. old ≠ weak

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

Man or woman, if you stink or skin sticky, please don’t think you’re dancing with me in the club😭 i get we be having fun but DO NOT TOUCH MEEE‼️

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@BlackAndNative1 im not saying all 5 african countries&3 european that run in my bloodline babes. im american.

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

mwah💋

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@ClownWorld some people just done know how to spend money because with $32k a month you should be living very comfortably, not paycheck to paycheck. The prices of everything is high, but not that damn high

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

@heyyitsjanea ipads do i fact distract children from actually playing, they’re worse than the TV my daughter didn’t have one u til she was 4 and i still don’t like the concept of her having a handheld device. kids don’t need ipads.

[𝟮𝟭.🛸 @Big_tagg]

Both men & women are just as bad as each other.. gender wars are very stupid

[jayskii🫧 @okjarda]

wholeheartedly agree that “What it Sounds Like” should’ve been the song pushed to the masses, but i love Golden😭 i can’t agree that its’s mid

[The Reese's Guy⁷ @AndrewAthias]

I can FINALLY let the cat out of the bag....or the grass

I flew all the way from Philly to be grass in the Bad Bunny halftime show 🌿

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