A severe burn changes life in an instant. Beyond the pain, it destroys the body’s natural shield against infection, ...

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 ...

A plastic surgeon and burn specialist, Fiona Wood, developed a spray-on skin method to treat burns without scarring.

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 severe burn can destroy the body’s natural barrier in an instant, leaving patients vulnerable to infection, dehydration and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The biggest concern 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 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 – ...

Skin grafting remains a cornerstone of reconstructive surgery for burns, chronic ulcers and extensive wounds. Techniques range from conventional split-thickness and full-thickness autografts to ...