New research has found flesh wounds can set off health issues that go beyond skin deep, with impacts reaching as far as the gut. We've known for a while that there's a link between gut and dermal ...

Immune cells are known to “remember” infections and inflammatory events so that they can respond faster to future insults, but what about the epithelial stem cells that maintain the skin and promote ...

SIS has been used so far to cure skin wounds and chronic sores, treat urinary incontinence in women, repair internal organs, and save the limbs of people suffering from deep wounds that were ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have hit upon new technologies to deliver a double whammy to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Xylazine or “tranq” wounds – characterized by deep pockets of dead tissue – have ...

Diabetic wounds often lead to severe complications that can result in amputations. These chronic and non-healing wounds are marked by persistent inflammation, affecting more than six per cent of the ...

In one advertisement, Fife flagged in 2023, a skin substitute representative whose company name has been redacted boasts of a ...

We expected the removal of microRNA-29 would help outer layers of the skin to grow faster. But it was the deep matrix of the wound that actually showed an improvement, and that was tremendously ...

In S'pore, about four people have their lower limbs amputated each day due to non-healing diabetic wounds. Read more at ...