Sunday, February 15, 2009

Synthetic Skin

Engineered tissue is a combination of living cells and a support structure called a scaffold. The scaffold, depending on the organ in production, can be anything from a matrix of collagen, a structural protein, to synthetic biodegradable plastic laced with chemicals that stimulate cell growth and multiplication. The "seed" cells that initiate this propagation come from laboratory cultures or from the patient's own body.

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