Blood sampling is painful and invasive, plus it only tells you what's going on in the patient's body right when the sample is ...

Bio-engineered skin grafts can play an important role in the treatment of burn victims. Researchers at the University of ...

Survivors of Switzerland’s devastating Crans-Montana fire disaster who suffered severe burns are being treated ...

The Cell Production Centre at Lausanne University Hospital is working flat out trying to grow new skin for badly-burned ...

Wearable health devices, such as smartwatches, have become commonplace, enabling the continuous monitoring of physiological ...

While bioengineered skin holds great promise for people such as burn victims, the material has so far only been produced in flat sheets. Now, however, scientists have devised a method of growing it in ...

Bioengineers have developed a way to grow engineered skin in three-dimensional shapes, including a seamless 'glove' of skin that could be slipped onto a severely burned hand. If you've ever tried gift ...

A full-thickness skin graft is a procedure that’s used to treat injuries and heal surgical wounds. Grafts are typically taken from healthy skin elsewhere on the body and placed over the damaged or ...