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Kerecis to Present Scientific and Clinical Updates on Fish-Skin Grafts at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Spring

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 ...
Medscape

Can Fish Skin Grafts Heal Diabetic Foot Ulcers?

The proportion of wounds healed at 16 weeks was higher with intact fish skin grafts than with standard-of-care (44.0% vs 26.4% adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.58; 95% CI, 1.48-4.56). The fish skin grafts ...
Newsweek

How Fish Skin is Being Used to Treat Burn Victims

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 ...
The Conversation

Skin grafts for burns injuries can lead to crippling scars – a drug that blocks the skin’s ability to respond to physical stimuli could promote healing, new research in ...

Kellen Chen receives funding from the Plastic Surgery Foundation Translational Grant Award and C-DOCTOR (supported by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research and National Institutes ...
Business Wire

Kerecis Combines Fish-Skin Graft and Silicone Cover for Wound Treatment

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SAWC – Kerecis ® today announced MariGen ® Shield, which integrates the company’s proven fish-skin graft with a silicone contact layer for treating chronic and ...
Healio

Cell-based, gene therapy skin grafts heal large epidermolysis bullosa wounds

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cell-based, gene therapy skin graft healed large chronic wounds for patients with epidermolysis bullosa. The ...
Medscape

RDEB: Genetically Corrected Skin Grafts Lead to Sustained Healing, Pain Relief for Large Wounds

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 ...
News Medical

Genetically engineered skin grafts help heal chronic wounds in patients with epidermolysis bullosa

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 ...
Black Enterprise

Facial Scars Of Third-Degree Burn Victim Healed By Using Placenta

Placenta grafting yields remarkable results for third-degree burns. Third-degree burns are being healed using placenta. The use of placenta in medicine is not new, but the results of Mary Townsend’s ...
IFLScience

Tilapia Skin Grafts Won't Turn You Into Aquaman But They May Save Your Skin

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...
Yahoo

Texas Preemie's Severe Wound Healed with Fish Skin: ‘I Call Her My Little Mermaid’

A Texas mother is detailing her daughter’s remarkable treatment journey after doctors used fish skin to heal her severe wound as a preterm baby. In April 2022, Krystal DeVos gave birth to her daughter ...