Skin from cod and tilapia is being used to treat burns and other skin damage. Icelandic biotechnology company Kerecis has developed an FDA-approved cod-skin treatment that can speed up burn healing ...

Skin grafting is a technique for treating injured, broken, or lost skin. A split-thickness skin graft is made by shaving off a thin area of healthy skin from elsewhere on the body. Share on Pinterest ...

Fish skin grafts are a new option for treating wounds and burns. Research suggests they reduce pain, aid healing, and have a low risk of side effects. New treatment options for burns and skin wounds ...

A skin graft is a patch of skin removed from one area of your body (donor site) and reattached in another place (recipient site). Skin grafts can only come from your own body. You can’t receive a skin ...

While bioengineered skin holds great promise for people such as burn victims, the material has so far only been produced in flat sheets. Now, however, scientists have devised a method of growing it in ...

Kerecis has launched SurgiClose Silicone, a product combining fish-skin graft with silicone backing to treat surgical and ...

Standard wound care for diabetic foot ulcers involves vascular assessment, surgical debridement, use of appropriate dressings, infection management, and glycemic control; however, standard care is ...

A skin graft is a surgical procedure that involves removing healthy skin from one area of the body to another. The healthy skin replaces damaged or missing skin resulting from trauma, burns, and ...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find that donor keratinocytes injected into mouse embryos form sheets of epidermis that can be used as autologous skin grafts Tokyo, Japan – ...

Your skin is your body’s largest organ. It keeps you protected, helps you feel your environment, and keeps the rest of your body protected. Imagine how difficult life would be without skin that worked ...

Kellen Chen receives funding from the Plastic Surgery Foundation Translational Grant Award and C-DOCTOR (supported by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research and National Institutes ...