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 ...

The future of burn and wound care is looking fishy—in a good way. New research suggests that a greater variety of fish skins can be used as wound dressings than currently assumed. Researchers at ...

Coloplast A/S is acquiring Kerecis hf, a closely held Icelandic maker of fish-skin dressings to treat human wounds, for an enterprise value of up to $1.3 billion. Coloplast is making a $1.2 billion ...

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 ...