Sentences with phrase «engineered skin graft»
This study, «Engineered epidermal progenitor cells can correct diet - induced obesity and diabetes,» is the first to show that an engineered skin graft can survive long term in wild - type mice with intact immune systems.
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It makes a good scaffold for skin grafts or engineered tissue.
«Surgeons use a variety of techniques to grow skin for tissue expansion procedures designed to grow skin in one region of the body so that it can be auto - grafted on to another site [sometimes used for burn victims],» said Guy German, assistant professor of biomedical engineering within the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University.
In addition to growing new skin for burn victims, cells from hair follicles could potentially be used to engineer vascular grafts and possibly regenerate cardiac tissues for patients with heart problems.