Researchers heal burns with fish peptideANTIBACTERIAL: The Academia Sinica team’s success made them stand out among more than 700 teams applying to participate in this week’s Taiwan Innotech ExpoBy Lin Ching-lun, Chien Hui-ju and Dennis Xie / Staff reporters, with staff writerAcademia Sinica research has found that collagencin, an antibacterial peptide from fish collagen, shows great potential in the treatment of burns by accelerating healing and helping to prevent scarring. Photo: Lin Ching-lun, Taipei TimesIn stage 1 of a four-part experiment, collagencin proved to have healing properties on mice burns, which healed in seven to 14 days without scarring, while in stage 2, collagencin similarly helped to heal pig burns, which healed in about 25 days, he said. In stage 3, collagencin is to be tested on monkeys and the last stage is the clinical trials, Chen said. In related news, the Council of Agriculture (COA) has developed technology to extract collagen from pig lungs, which mostly go to waste as few people eat them. Research and development with bone biomaterials would benefit from the process, as animal collagen works best with such biomaterials, Tu said.

Source: Taipei Times September 25, 2020 15:56 UTC