A full-thickness skin graft is a procedure that’s used to treat injuries and heal surgical wounds. Grafts are typically taken from healthy skin elsewhere on the body and placed over the damaged or ...

A skin graft is a patch of skin removed from one area of your body (donor site) and reattached in another place (recipient site). Skin grafts can only come from your own body. You can’t receive a skin ...

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 ...

When someone is seriously burned, they face a number of health challenges. In order to close the wound, doctors graft skin from other parts of the body, creating more wounds and increasing the risk of ...

MoMelan Technologies, which raised $1 million in seed funding seven months ago, has made good use of that time and money. The Cambridge-based medical device company is hurtling towards ...

Tina Knowles revealed in her memoir Matriarch that she needed a skin graft following a freak cooking accident involving boiling oil She had been cooking fish when she hit the skillet's handle, sending ...

BOSTON - Burn specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) announced today they have successfully used live-cell, genetically engineered pig skin (xenograft) for the temporary closure of a burn ...

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, along with collaborators in Houston, reported ...