A woman, 21, in England had her arm tattoo put on her tongue after undergoing a skin graft during cancer treatment.

ANTONIO TORRES, A 24-year-old from Denver, used to spend six hours each day bathing and meticulously wrapping the red, raw ...

Kellen Chen receives funding from the Plastic Surgery Foundation Translational Grant Award and C-DOCTOR (supported by the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research and National Institutes ...

Jay Leno underwent his first surgery, a skin grafting procedure, after suffering serious burns in an accident involving a gasoline fire over the weekend. During a press conference Wednesday, Leno’s ...

A potential new surgical treatment for cocaine and alcohol addiction only goes skin deep, but could leave a long-lasting impact. University researchers Xiaoyang Wu and Ming Xu have seen mice hooked on ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have come up with an intriguing potential treatment to combat cocaine and alcohol addictions — a skin graft genetically altered to release molecules that curb ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

A North Yorkshire woman’s arm tattoo is now on her tongue – after a skin graft for cancer treatment. Harriet Trewhitt, 21, was diagnosed with tongue cancer after suffering with a painful ulcer for ...

A professor develops a bioadhesive based on the mussel adhesive protein for sutureless skin grafting. Skin regenerative effect maximized with controlled releases of dual drugs. One of the biggest ...

Mussels have long been known for the adhesive they produce, which allows them to cling to rocks. The protein responsible has now been utilized in a new skin grafting technique, which reportedly ...

Skin from cod and tilapia is being used to treat burns and other skin damage. Icelandic biotechnology company Kerecis has developed an FDA-approved cod-skin treatment that can speed up burn healing ...

On Monday, Dr. Jennifer Bledsoe-Nix, SPCA Wake’s medical director, successfully performed surgery on Lenny, a homeless hound mix living at the shelter. Bledsoe-Nix said the center takes on many ...