A close-up shot of a Musashi Engineering dispenser printing a hydrogel ear.

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Researchers used 3D printing to create multi-layered skin grafts for deep wounds.

Bioprinting a thick skin

News

A photo of a 17th century herbal medicine book from The Huntington Library’s collection.

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A 17th century book of herbal remedies in the Huntington Library’s collection sits open on a green cushion, revealing the illustrations of people and plants on its title page.

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Could the solution to antibiotic resistance already have been discovered? Microbiologists and historians probe medieval and ancient texts to find out.

The antibiotics hidden in medieval recipes

Podcasts

A scientist wearing a white lab coat, goggles, and blue gloves sits at a lab bench and performs an experiment.

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A drawing of people wrapping a giant hand in a white dressing and applying a large bottle of ointment.

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A diagram detailing the steps to create the smart wound dressing.

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A new wound dressing monitors infections in real time and administers timely treatment using metal ions.

A smart bandage fights bacteria with precision

A closeup of a young female spiny mouse eating an insect.

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Investigator Jennifer Simkin views a microscopic image on a computer monitor, while research associate Tierra Strange examines a slide under the microscope. 

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Ashley Seifert’s laboratory members, Ajoy Aloysius and Brennan Riddell, have a scientific discussion in front of a whiteboard containing sketches of salamanders and molecular structures.

Macrophages and their secretory products make the difference between skin regeneration and scarring.

Spiny mice hold the key to regenerative wound healing

An illustration of cream pouring out of a tube on top of skin. 

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A dermatologist and a nanomaterials scientist teamed up to develop synthetic particles to accelerate tissue repair in damaged skin.

Synthetic melanin accelerates wound healing

Articles

Instead of patching a wound completely, cells at the center of large wounds burrow deep, triggering a flurry of regeneration that creates hair follicles and sebaceous glands. But bacteria-free mice in Garza’s study regenerated fewer hair follicles and glands than mice with bacteria on their skin.

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Ointment on hand. Applying the ointment and emollient cream in the treatment and hydration of the skin

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The commonly used ointment Neosporin may disrupt skin&rsquo;s regenerative microbiome, delaying healing.

Neosporin may slow wound healing

Maggots used therapeutically are the larvae of Lucilia sericata, or the common blowfly. They are only a few millimeters long. 

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Genetically engineered Lucilia sericata grown in Max Scott’s lab to express a transgenic fluorescent marker. 

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Max Scott is a researcher at North Carolina State University, who genetically engineered Lucilia sericata to make a human growth factor. 

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A person is smiling and standing with their arms crossed. They are wearing glasses and a white lab coat.

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Maggots cleaning dead and unhealthy tissue from a leg wound before further surgery. 

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Companies grow sterile, medical-grade maggots for use in debridement procedures. 

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The larvae are often contained in a dressing that is applied to the wound or in a tea-bag-like “biobag.” 

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A centuries-old wound-cleaning technique is finding its place in modern medicine.

Larva therapy makes a comeback

A person wearing blue gloves holds a piece of white fish skin between their fingers.

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Electron microscope images show that Kerecis-processed fish skin (left) and human skin (right) are structurally similar.

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A scientist at the Tilapia Skin Project prepares a piece of tilapia skin for use on a patient’s wound.

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Researchers from Iceland to Brazil investigate the healing powers of fish skin, providing a low-cost and improved solution for treating wounds.

Fish skin heals the toughest wounds

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March 2025

A doctor wearing blue gloves and a white lab coat with a stethoscope around their neck holds a rendering of a digestive system on a glass pane with a swirled blue background.

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CN Bio

Explore how a dual-organ microphysiological system connects human gut and liver tissue to bridge gaps in predicting how drugs behave in the body.

Connecting the gut and liver to enhance drug development

Application Note

A syringe draws liquid from a glass vial, with several glass ampoules reflected on a glossy surface in the background

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Waters

Explore essential thermal stability techniques to ensure the safety, quality, and efficacy of biologic drugs.

Turning up the heat: thermal analysis for biotherapeutics

Ebooks

A 3D-rendered image of a pink and white twisted RNA strand floating against a green, blurred cellular background.

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