A handheld device that deposits skin directly onto patients' wounds could revolutionize the way that doctors treat burns and other wounds. The printer, developed by University of Toronto researchers, is used like a white-out tape dispenser, rolling o...
Handheld skin printer could help heal burn victims
A handheld device that deposits skin directly onto patients' wounds could revolutionize the way that doctors treat burns and other wounds. The printer, developed by University of Toronto researchers, is used like a white-out tape dispenser, rolling o...
A young boy with a rare genetic skin disorder is alive and well two years after an experimental gene therapy technique was used to grow and replace nine square feet of his skin. The paper, just published in the journal Nature, describes how doctors i...
Right now, you have to grow human transplants in a stationary environment. That's more than a little dangerous when they could buckle under the stresses of a real body. Oxford University may have a clever (if slightly ghastly) solution to that prob...