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 ...

The biggest concerns for patients undergoing skin grafting are scarring post-surgery and the regeneration of transplanted skin. The depth of scarring after suturing varies depending on the skill of ...

Bioengineers have developed a way to grow engineered skin in three-dimensional shapes, including a seamless 'glove' of skin that could be slipped onto a severely burned hand. If you've ever tried gift ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a recently published phase 3 trial, credit card-sized cultured skin grafts corrected for the COL7A1 mutation that causes recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) and enabled most patients ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...