![]() ![]() The healthy cells from the wound perimeter will then crawl into the fish skin and over time convert it to human skin. We only produce the fish skin-wound dressings from any vendor can be applied on top. "The fish skin is then inserted into the wound and a wound dressing applied on top of the fish-skin. She inspects the wound and with a knife cuts away all dead tissue and makes the wound red and bleeding," Gudmundur Fertram Sigurjonsson, founder, president and CEO of Keracis, told Newsweek. "The fish skin is used in the following manner: The doctor receives our fish-skin in sterile packaging. Kerecis' Omega3 SurgiBind is grafted onto burned or otherwise damaged human skin, whereupon healthy human cells slowly grow across the fish skin, healing the wound beneath. Courtesy of National Library of Medicine Appearance of the dressing on the wound the sixth day of treatment. ![]() Skin of a tilapia fish was applied to a burn patient's arms in Brazil in 2019. It is using skin from Atlantic cod for burn wounds, in the first FDA-approved form of this treatment. ![]() Now Kerecis, an Icelandic biotechnology company, thinks it has the answer. While researchers around the world have been investigating how to use fish skin to treat burn victims, the question has been which species is best for the job, with some scientists using tilapia. Their hope is that it will provide a cheaper and better treatment, as well as relieve pain.
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