A nanocellulose wound dressing that can reveal early signs of infection without interfering with the healing process has been developed by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden. Their study ...

When the skin is injured, a stem cell’s survival instincts kick in. New research reveals that a simple amino acid, serine, ...

Scientists found that adult stem cells intended to maintain hair growth are sometimes redirected to healing skin instead and the amino acid serine, found in common foods, regulates this process. The ...

7. Topical vitamin E Primarily known as an antioxidant, vitamin E also has anti-inflammatory properties that may help with the wound healing process and prevent further tissue damage.

An enzyme expressed by skin cells could be helpful in the management of non-healing skin wounds and ulcers, according to ...

Wound healing involves four stages: homeostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. The skin is the body's largest organ and is a barrier to germs, injury, chemicals, and ultraviolet (UV ...

Our bodies have effective and complex mechanisms in place to repair cutaneous wounds. Most medical interventions don’t go beyond supporting the body’s natural mechanisms in the wound-healing process; ...

This layer helps push the wound closed to further aid the healing process, and is triggered into action by skin temperature. A final layer of flexible gel sits on top.

Wound healing is a conserved process that requires tight spatiotemporal tuning of consecutive phases. In the inflammatory phase, local signals trigger the innate immune system around the wound.

The process is simple -- Peyton buys the fish, cleans and sterilizes it, and sutures it onto the normal part of the animal’s skin and directly over the burn injury itself.