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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The woman’s burns are severe, essentially eradicating the skin from more than half of her body. Every layer of this complex tissue must therefore be replaced with grafts. These need to be harvested ...

A 4-year-old burn victim at Massachusetts General Hospital received the first two-layered skin graft in the United States using a new procedure that, if successful, could improve outcomes for ...

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 ...