In a world first, fully functioning human skin has been grown in a lab, complete with vessels and pigmentation
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University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have become the first in the world to successfully grow fully functioning human skin in a laboratory.
The breakthrough, led by UQ’s Frazer Institute, used stem cells to create a replica of human skin that included blood vessels, capillaries, hair follicles, multiple layers of tissue, and immune cells.
Dr Abbas Shafiee said the skin model, which took six years to develop, would be transformative for skin graft transplants, wound healing, and the study of skin disorders.
Dude WTF this is so f*ng cool. Gosh DARNIT I love science so much. On top of all the awesome ways they can treat people it sounds like a very “humane” way of being able to test a lot of drugs/cures/lotions/whatever else they need without needing “live” beings to test.
This gives me hope!
I have been meaning to update the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, but ethical sourcing of human skin for book binding is such a pain in the ass that I had almost given up.
I guess it’s ok to release el Hefe from his cage, as soon as I can get some nondifferentiated cell samples.