Burn specialists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston have successfully used a live-cell, genetically engineered pig skin xenog

Traditionally, human skin cells have been cultured using combined human-animal culture methodologies. These techniques expose patients to th

“Our skin printer promises to tailor tissues to specific patients and wound characteristics,” said lead author Navid Hakimi. “And it’s very

A new technique for combining pre-vascularized sheets of dermal stem cells with split-thickness skin grafts (STSG) may improve the treatment of large, full-thickness burn wounds, according to findings published in Theranostics (2017; 7(1):117–131). Researchers from Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mich., and First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China noted in the paper that combining STSG with a dermal substitute has previously been