Iowa high school student Dasia Taylor is winning acclaim and awards over an medical invention that has the potential to help millions: beet juice-infused sutures that change colour when in contact with an infected wound.
TORONTO -- Iowa high-schooler Dasia Taylor is winning acclaim and awards over an medical invention that has the potential to help millions: beet juice-infused sutures that change colour when in contact with an infected wound.
She had read about new sutures that could detect the presence of infection using electricity, and then send the information to a smartphone. The solution she came up with – beet juice-infused sutures that change colour when a wound becomes infected – has earned her international recognition, and more importantly, shows promise for helping people in low and middle-income countries who develop infections after surgery.
The potential for helping people was the draw for Taylor, who has spent much of her time in high school focused not on science but on racial equity work in her community. She plans to move on to law school, but also continue with her burgeoning career in science.
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