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Post by clone on Nov 6, 2011 8:39:33 GMT -8
Instant skin-grafts: Sci-fi style spray-gun heals severe burns 'within days' Last updated at 1:38 AM on 8th February 2011 The skin gun is no longer science fiction. A doctor has created a prototype medical device that literally sprays skin cells onto burn victims to re-grow skin. Once grafts took weeks, but now the skin gun does the work in under two hours and the burns heal within days. It has successfully treated over a dozen patients so far. Doctor Jörg Gerlach, of the University of Pittsburgh's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has discovered a method which regenerates healthy skin stem cells from the victim and sprays it on the burned skin. www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1353070/Star-Trek-skin-gun-heals-severe-burns-days.html
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Post by clone on Feb 5, 2015 8:34:47 GMT -8
Human Cadavers Provide New Skin for Chronic Wounds by Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor | February 05, 2015 07:57am ET Decellularized body parts are increasingly being used to treat patients. Researchers have decellularized windpipes from deceased donors, seeded them with cells grown from living patients, and then successfully transplanted these recellularized body parts into patients. www.livescience.com/49704-cadaver-skin-treats-chronic-wounds.html
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Post by Organovo on May 21, 2015 19:42:21 GMT -8
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