Tides Medical of Lafayette turns donated placentas into wound care products to treat chronic and surgical wounds. It’s one of few vertically integrated biotech companies based in Louisiana, and it is expanding into the “bio-ink” business through a partnership with the South Korean company Rokit Healthcare.
For the past 15 years, a Lafayette company has built a national wound-care business out of an often-discarded byproduct of childbirth to help solve a nagging health care challenge affecting millions of people: untreated chronic wounds like bedsores a… [4942 chars]
Source: Baton Rouge Advocate | Published: 2026-01-30T10:00:00Z
Credit: Baton Rouge Advocate
