Inkjet Cell Fabricator Prints Healing Flesh Directly Onto Wounds

[Luisks]

The brains of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest created a new machine that could make obsolete the skin grafts, currently used with people suffering from serious burns. This new technique is much faster and leaves fewer scars.

The revolutionary device, a printer like biotechnology, "shoot" new skin cells in the affected areas, becoming a quick alternative for sensitive parts and might even close wounds.

Until now, scientists have only tested the new technology, called "bioprinting" in mice with very good results. A normal wound in rodents delayed five weeks, while this invention the term was reduced to just two weeks.

The dew that drives this machine is a mixture of cell types of skin purified, stored in a nutrient solution. The first layer contains fibroblasts and the second, keratin, which have stem cells and nutrients.

In this development, scientists are working with the U.S. Army to carry this printer miraculous battlefields and help heal wounded soldiers. Was not there a more worthy for this remarkable progress?

Link: Inkjet Cell Fabricator Prints Healing Flesh Directly Onto Wounds: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-04/cell-fabricator-prinks-healing-flesh-burn-victims​

 

[Smiley]

wow that is amazing!!! Just wait for guns that heal you... Medic Gun FTW

 

[DragonD]

this is pretty cool

 

[Luisks]

this is pretty cool

Yes!
Amazing!

 

[Sexy Beast]

I could have sworn that I've heard of this before, but I can't remember where.

 

[Luisks]

I could have sworn that I've heard of this before, but I can't remember where.

But, here in the forum? Or elsewhere?

 

[Sexy Beast]

But, here in the forum? Or elsewhere?

Elsewhere, like maybe a year or two ago.

 

[Luisks]

Elsewhere, like maybe a year or two ago.

Ohh ok, I thought I had been here,

Haha, but it is elsewhere