a bandage made from skin cells grown from a sample of the patient’s skin
The PrintAlive Bioprinter - a 3D printer that can print a ‘living bandage’ from skin cells, capable of treating severe burns.
Submitted by: Kerry from United Kingdom on 16/03/2016
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The living bandage, known commercially as the Myskin™ bandage, has taken 10 years to develop, and is the result of a collaboration between researchers at Sheffield University and a spin-off biotechnology company called CellTran. Also described as a biological bandage, the technique was first reported in a New Scientist column in 2002.