Researchers in Brazil are testing a new way to treat burn victims. They have found that tilapia skin is rich in collagen which helps the damaged skin heal better than standard wound dressings and eliminates the need to wait for donor tissue. Check out these videos from YouTube describing this radical new idea in burn therapy:
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A year ago, Armand Leroi, the author of Mutants, wrote:
One of my bibles of clinical medicine is Fitzpatrick's Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Dermatology. It's basically a field guide to skin, with hundreds of pictures matched up with brief summaries.
A reader emailed me asking about the genetics of hair color.
The story about HERC2 & OCA2 is getting a lot of press; that is, the genetics behind how people have blue eyes.
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Very interesting