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Media Mentions

Selected news articles about NIGMS-supported research to better understand the biological processes associated with trauma, burn, peri-operative injury and wound healing.
Virtual Penguins A Prescription For Pain? Link to external Web site
February 12, 2012 • National Public Radio

NIGMS-supported SnowWorld virtual reality program relieves the pain of soldier burned in Afghanistan.
Closing In on the Formula for Artificial Skin Link to external Web site
July 6, 2010 • Wall Street Journal

NIGMS expert Scott Somers discusses the status of research focused on making synthetic skin to treat burns and chronic wounds.
For Veterans With Burns, A Virtual Reality Aid Link to external Web site
January 4, 2010 • National Public Radio

Sliding around icy canyons and lobbing snowballs at giant penguins or woolly mammoths lessens pain for badly burned soldiers. The NIGMS-supported virtual reality program was also featured in Findings and Biomedical Beat.
New Approaches To Healing Wounds Link to external Web site
January 14, 2008 • American Medical News

NIGMS is funding a large, interdisciplinary group of researchers, who are planning to test a wide array of approaches to promote wound healing.
Genes May Determine Who Survives Trauma Link to external Web site
November 13, 2006 • Associated Press

NIGMS-sponsored "glue grants" funding collaborative research on trauma are helping reveal the genetic causes of how and why bodies sometimes overreact to injury. Severe injuries seem to trigger changes in the behavior of hundreds of genes.

 
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