Jan. 29, 2007 — Severe burns are not only painful, they also put patients at risk of serious infection. Now researchers are using gene therapy to rev up the wound healing process in skin cells, hoping to fight potentially lethal infections.
"The gene we're using is found in humans, but not normally turned on in the skin," explained Dorothy Supp, a researcher at Cincinnati Shriner's Hospital for Children and the University of Cincinnati. "We transferred it to skin cells in culture increase their antimicrobial function."
Supp and her team published the research in the current issue of the Journal of Burn Care and Research.
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