Bioengineering skin for deep burns

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Could skin grown in a lab be used to treat severe burns?

Spray on skin, another Australian invention, has been hugely successful in treating first and second degree burns.

However third degree burns are still difficult to treat, and require skin to be taken from elsewhere on the body and grafted onto the wound.

Melbourne's Skin Bioengineering Laboratory has learnt how to grow new sheets of skin — using the patients own cells.

Guest

Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh, Monash University
A/Prof Heather Cleland, The Alfred Hospital

References

Skin Bioengineering Laboratory - Monash University
Clinical trial to test engineered skin for severe burns starts in Melbourne's Alfred Hospital, ABC News

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