alt Hacker NewsI thought this a pretty mature technique? I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way. Interestingly, they too used tilapia fish skin, and not any of the more common local fish species. I wonder if there is something special about tilapia fish skin, or it was simply the species on which the technique was developed, and nobody bothered to try using other fish species.
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> I thought this a pretty mature technique? […]
Yes, it is very mature. The article was written in 2017.
No need for antibiotics because the fish got ample amounts while growing up in the farm.
It's probably a mix of "this species happens to be unusually well-suited" and "this is the species people bothered to study rigorously first."
What's special is that tilapia is probably cheaper than even the local fish since it's farmed in massive quantities and shipped all over the world as food.
If other fish skins were tried it must have been similar results.
Tilapia are cheap and abundant, and the skin is an industrial-scale waste product.
They're incredibly hardy, and unlike most other food fish you can easily grow them in simple container setups.