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 ...

Mussels have long been known for the adhesive they produce, which allows them to cling to rocks. The protein responsible has now been utilized in a new skin grafting technique, which reportedly ...

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 ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

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 ...

Jay Leno underwent his first surgery, a skin grafting procedure, after suffering serious burns in an accident involving a gasoline fire over the weekend. During a press conference Wednesday, Leno’s ...

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kerecis, the pioneer in the use of fish skin and fatty acids for tissue regeneration and protection, will unveil its latest scientific and clinical updates, including ...

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 – ...

A newly approved medicinal cream made from pineapples could be a “game changer” for burn patients, doctors say. At Stony Brook Medicine’s burn center in New York, doctors recently started using ...

A professor develops a bioadhesive based on the mussel adhesive protein for sutureless skin grafting. Skin regenerative effect maximized with controlled releases of dual drugs. One of the biggest ...

Genetically modified skin grafts could help addicts who struggle with relapse. Getty Images University researchers Xiaoyang Wu and Ming Xu have seen mice hooked on cocaine and alcohol turn up their ...

Dr. Peter Grossman explained the treatment plan for the comedian's second and third-degree burns from a gasoline fire Jay Leno is currently recovering at Grossman Burn Center after a gasoline fire ...