A full-thickness skin graft is a procedure that’s used to treat injuries and heal surgical wounds. Grafts are typically taken from healthy skin elsewhere on the body and placed over the damaged or ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have combined the six primary skin cell types with specialized hydrogels to ‘print’ a thick, multilayered skin that, when transplanted, successfully integrated with ...

ANTONIO TORRES, A 24-year-old from Denver, used to spend six hours each day bathing and meticulously wrapping the red, raw ...

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 ...

When Krystal DeVos watches her young daughter, Eliana, play with an Ariel doll, her eyes fill with emotion. “I call her my little mermaid,” DeVos said of her daughter. Shortly after Eliana was born, ...