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Marine collagen is more bioavailable than bovine collagen

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    Marine Collagen from European Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Waste for the Development of Chitosan/Collagen Scaffolds in Skin Tissue Engineering.

    Published 2025
    Reviewer Insight
    6/5/2026

    This paper developed wound-healing scaffolds from sea bass collagen and chitosan, showing they supported mouse cell growth and killed bacteria like MRSA. It does not test whether marine collagen is better absorbed than bovine collagen — that claim appears as a single unreferenced sentence in the introduction.

    • No absorption or bioavailability was measured
    • No bovine collagen functional comparison was made
    • Only mouse cells were used, not human
    • n=3 replicates with no multiple-comparison correction makes all p-values unreliable
    • The claim is a marketing statement, not a finding

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