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 ...
WAILEA, Hawaii & REYKJAVIK, Iceland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kerecis ®, the company that is pioneering the use of fish skin in tissue regeneration and wound care, today announced its new product, Kerecis ...
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 ...
ARLINGTON, Va. & REYKJAVIK, Iceland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kerecis ®, the company pioneering the use of fish skin and fatty acids for tissue regeneration and protection, is donating its GraftGuide ® ...
A patient with severe burn injuries is brought to a burn center, in need of a skin graft immediately. A surgeon comes in with a small, handheld device and quickly dispenses thin sheets of artificial ...
Burn specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital are the first in the world to successfully use live-cell, genetically engineered pig skin to temporarily close a burn wound in a human patient — but ...
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (WPVI) -- Burn care has seen a host of breakthroughs in the past decade. Death rates have dropped by more than 50 percent since 1950. The latest innovation is bringing patients ...