A team of bioengineers from Columbia University, in New York, in the United States, is revolutionizing skin grafts in what may be the biggest redesign of the technique launched in the 1980s. with open edges”, they propose design the skin as a fully enclosed 3D fabric.
The new skin, which can be molded from a body part and transplanted without problems, it works like wearing a biological suit. To do this, the team developed a technique to grow skin designed into complex three-dimensional shapes. In this model, the graft for a severely burned hand could come in the form of a “glove” of seamless cells.
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