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Bioengineered human skin

News: Synthetic Biology    April 22, 2010
Over the years there have been many approaches to creating artificial human skin. With each generation there have been improvements. One of the latest approaches has been developed by a research team at the University of Granada (Spain), which has produced the first artificial skin using a fibrin-agarose biomaterial. Fibrin is a fibrous protein associated [...]
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Stem cells from the umbilical cord

News: Stem Cells    October 11, 2009
The sources for stem cells continue to proliferate. Umbilical cord blood cells can successfully be reprogrammed to function like embryonic stem cells, setting the basis for the creation of a comprehensive bank of tissue-matched, cord blood-derived induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells for off-the-shelf applications, report researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the [...]
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