New York - based sculptor Ivana Basic (b. 1986) creates forms whose surfaces
resemble human skin, connoting raw slabs of meat twisting into themselves into awkward, alien - like figures.
Not exact matches
But gutting and
skinning a deer reminds me too much of the
human carcass and a deer heart too closely
resembles my own.
The resulting visage, created using software that superimposed facial features on a photograph and assigned
skin thicknesses based on a database of
human faces, strongly
resembles known paintings of Copernicus.
«We have converted
skin cells to stem cells and developed a highly efficient process to convert these stem cells into kidney structures that
resemble those found in a normal
human kidney.
Two groups of researchers report today that washing
human skin cells in similar cocktails of four genes enabled them to reprogram the cells to
resemble those harvested from embryos.
Wei Long Ng explained: «The two - step bioprinting strategy involves the fabrication of hierarchical porous collagen - based structures (that closely
resembles the
skin's dermal region), and deposition of epidermal cells such as keratinocytes and melanocytes at pre-defined positions on top of the biomimetic dermal
skin constructs, to create 3D in - vitro pigmented
human skin constructs.
Both teams successfully used these to reprogramme
skin cells in a lab dish into cells
resembling embryonic stem cells, which have the ability to turn into any tissue of the
human body.
Scientists can now reprogram
human skin cells to make working cells that
resemble «medium spiny neurons», the type of brain cell that is most affected early in Huntington's disease.
Ng explains, «The two - step bioprinting strategy involves the fabrication of hierarchical porous collagen - based structures (that closely
resembles the
skin's dermal region), and deposition of epidermal cells such as keratinocytes and melanocytes at pre-defined positions on top of the biomimetic dermal
skin constructs, to create 3D in - vitro pigmented
human skin constructs.
To cure dry
skin on your dog, ask your veterinarian about switching to a shampoo formulated for canine seborrhea, a condition that is also referred to as dog dandruff, since it
resembles the
human condition.