Artificial skin 'cuts scarring', article written by Pallab Ghosh BBC News, Science correspondent, BBC news.
A prototype artificial skin used to heal wounds has been developed by British researchers. This skin seemed to incorporate itself much better with real tissue than any other skin substitutes tried in the past. Nowadays, the best way of treating wounds is taking skin from other parts of the person's body, but it isn't the ideal way. This alternative might provide an alternative to skin grafts.
The process is the following: The skin is created from a matrix made up of fibrin, a protein found in healing wounds. To this is added human fibroblasts - cells used by the body to synthesise new tissue. In a process that effectively replicates the way the body makes new skin, the cells produce and release another protein, collagen, which makes the matrix more stable.
It is in this form that the "skin" is implanted into a wound.
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