A Black high school student invented sutures that change color when it detects an infection. Dasia Taylor, 17, an Iowa City West High School student, started working on the project, which uses beets, in October 2019. The vegetable provides the dye for her invention, according to Smithsonian Magazine. RELATED: Brown STEM Girl: 12-year-old heading to college, plans to work for NASA In January, Taylor was one of the finalists in the country's top science and math competitions of high school seniors, the Regeneron Science Talent Search. '[The project] was based on the entire disproportionality of citizens who die in developing […]
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