The patch delivers healing proteins from engineered cells in a mini "factory" around the clock to different types of injury.

Chronic wounds remain a significant clinical challenge, in part because it is difficult to deliver sustained, localized ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed a removable “living bandage” filled with engineered human cells that release ...

Complicated, hard-to-heal wounds are a growing medical problem and there are currently only two drugs approved with proven efficacy. In a new study on humans, researchers show that treatment with a ...

Approximately 6.5 to 6.7 million people in the U.S. are affected by chronic wounds each year, and this number is expected to increase as the population ages. Poor blood circulation, high blood sugar ...

A new breakthrough study highlights that killing zombie cells could speed up wound healing and slow down skin ageing. Here is ...

One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful. To bring relief to this and other problems, University of Waterloo researchers have ...

New research shows that a certain bug, Alcaligenes faecalis (A. faecalis), can facilitate healing of hard-to-treat wounds among people with diabetes. While there are many studies done on potentially ...

NEW YORK, NY — Instructions on wound healing often involve disturbing photographs of severe diabetic ulcers, angry autoimmune blistering, and oozing lesions produced by uncommon genetic disorders, but ...