Scientists have made the shocking discovery that it’s your ankle, not your back, that feels the most awesome to scratch when you are itchy. More »
Man and machine might not be that different in the future — especially if they share the same synthetic skin being developed at Stanford University. More »
Back in 2009, we told you about the skin factory concept at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, where scientists hoped to mass-produce skin at low cost for clinical testing and other uses. Now it’s come online, with robots squeezing pink solution into pipettes and turning out sheets of human flesh. Der Spiegel took a look inside. More »
In what sounds like a scene from Robocop or The Terminator, scientists have invented an artificial skin printer, inspired by inkjet printers that could one day print skin which behaves in the same way as living tissue. More »
The spray-on skin gun is simply amazing technology. It literally sprays new skin cells onto burn victims to regrow skin. Old methods like skin grafts take weeks and months to heal, the skin gun only needs a little over an hour. More »
