Tissue Engineering - Turbo

BBC NEWS | Health | New tissue 'grown within minutes'

Currently, scientists make tissues to be used for
operations such as skin grafts by building a scaffold of cells that
grow in the lab.

However, it can take between one and 12 weeks to grow enough of the required tissue for the surgery.

Sucking out the water using a technique called plastic compression meant they could make the collagen in just over half an hour.

Its success in these applications will depend on how
it is survives in the body and how it is remodelled by natural body
processes.

"It also needs to be known whether it can act as a
template that is replaced by normal functional tissue. The present work
provides a good experimental basis for these further studies.

This is great news, this should help in the recovery from almost any
kind of injury if this can be used to repair real tissue. I think this
would have a major impact on burn victims, but everyone would benefit.

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