Showing posts with label wound healing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wound healing. Show all posts

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Fish skin Band-Aids: a natural way to speed wound healing



Have a cut on your hand? You’re most likely apt to reach for the box of Band-Aids or roll of gauze in the medicine cabinet. But what about some fish skin protein to cover that wound? It may sound like a remedy straight out of The Little Mermaid, but in fact researchers in China have recently discovered that collagen obtained from Tilapia fish significantly speeds up wound healing in rats.