Can Tilapia Skin Be Used to Bandage Burns?

No, these aren’t Professor Xavier’s students come to life. If a series of clinical trials in Northeast Brazil continues to go well, burn patients across the country might find their wounds bandaged with sterilized tilapia skin. Unlike gauze bandages, the tilapia skin stays on during the healing process, sparing patients the pain of daily rewrapping. The United States already has a supply of human skin, pig skin, and artificial alternatives for burn care, but in countries like Brazil that don't have those resources, tilapia skin could be big.