Reducing a skin graft’s responsiveness to its physical environment could help improve healing and reduce scarring from large injuries like burns or blast wounds, according to our recent study ...

Skin substitutes, bioengineered or natural materials designed to promote healing by replacing or supporting damaged skin, have become a key ...

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 potential new surgical treatment for cocaine and alcohol addiction only goes skin deep, but could leave a long-lasting impact. University researchers Xiaoyang Wu and Ming Xu have seen mice hooked on ...

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 ...

A Pasadena-based advanced wound care clinic is accused of defrauding Medicare for millions in reimbursements for skin graft substitutes and skin grafts that were never performed on patients, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...