As inventor Dasia Taylor likes to say, “Age by no means defines when you can and cannot invent.” Dasia’s path to invention began in 11th grade at Iowa City West High School, where she developed low-cost “smart” sutures to help detect infections. She experimented with using beet juice to coat her cotton stitches and discovered that this allowed them to change color as they reacted to the Ph of a wound that is infected.
Currently, she is a college student at the University of Iowa, as well as an entrepreneur and STEM advocate. Dasia is aspiring to obtain a patent for her “smart stitches.”
