The $1.83 million grant Fesarius Therapeutics Inc. was recently awarded will allow the company to work on the next generation of dermal repair products to treat complex wounds. The funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will go towards further development of the company’s advanced dermal regeneration scaffold for reconstructive surgery and takes the total amount of non-dilutive grant funding Fesarius has received to develop its hydrogel technology, Dermisphere, to $4 million.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) devices are all the rage for treatment of aortic valve disease, but that doesn’t mean valve reconstruction via the so-called Ozaki procedure has been consigned to the pages of medical history. The U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended that trusts in the U.K. health system use this procedure only in clinical trials at least for the time being, although the agency noted that the Ozaki procedure allows the patient to sidestep the need for long-term antithrombotic therapy, a big selling point for patients and clinicians alike.

The composition of the skull bone is unique and plays a direct role in influencing brain health through small channels in the bone and immune cell expression pathways, reported researchers based at the Helmholtz Center and Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich.

Dermasensor Inc.’s elastic scattering spectroscopy device appears to have solved one of the more challenging issues in dermatology—early detection of skin cancers in individuals with darker skin tones. The device demonstrated very high sensitivity across all skin cancer types compared to histopathological exams with minimal variation between Fitzpatrick skin type groups in an analysis of the DERM-SUCCESS trial.