Recently, a young bear with third-degree burns was treated with tilapia skins. Recently, Dr. Jamie Peyton received a phone call from a fellow veterinarian at the California Department of Fish and ...

Acting as a vital protective barrier, the skin shields an organism's internal tissues and organs from damage. As a result, an organism must quickly repair the barrier after a skin injury occurs. To ...

Skin grafts genetically engineered from a patient's own cells can heal persistent wounds in people with an extremely painful dermatologic disease, a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial has shown. The ...

When KETV visited the lab, the team was testing the technology on samples of pig skin."When we cut open any tissue, there is ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cell-based, gene therapy skin graft healed large chronic wounds for patients with epidermolysis bullosa. The ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British biotechnology company has developed a long-lasting artificial skin that has produced promising results in healing wounds in early clinical trials. Scientists said the ...

The Grande Ronde Hospital (GRH) Wound Clinic, located at 700 Sunset Dr., Suite F, has experienced significant growth over the past 15 years, evolving from a single-room clinic in the SurgiCenter that ...

We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities. By Elizabeth Preston Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MDMedically reviewed by William Truswell, MD A scab is a dry, rough protective crust that forms over a cut or wound during healing. It starts to form as soon as ...

“She was fighting for her life,” Angie Foy tells PEOPLE exclusively about her daughter Harper, who was born with a genetic skin disorder requiring three hour-long showers a day Courtesy Angie Foy When ...