The skin of what type of animal is used to treat burns?
Fish skin, usually from Atlantic cod or Nile tilapia, has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties that support healing of some wounds including burns and diabetic foot ulcers.
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- Who was Baby KJ?
“In 2025, a baby known as KJ became one of the first people treated with a personalized gene-editing therapy.”
Reference: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Who won the Nobel Prize for CRISPR?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for CRISPR.
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On October 16, 1846, dentist William Morton gave the first public demonstration of surgery using ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, a date now called "Ether Day."