Sentences with phrase «skin tissue directly»

In 1993, Dr. Wood began working with medical scientist Marie Stoner on a method to grow skin tissue directly on patients instead of in a culture flask.

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Since the 1970s tissue engineers have been figuring out how to grow skin, bone, cartilage, and even parts of vital organs using cells harvested directly from patients.

More important, the technique leaves the underlying tissue unharmed, prefiguring a day when doctors might build miniature sensors directly onto the skin of their patients, or biologists might use microscopic tweezers to capture and study individual cells.

There, doctors diagnosed him with necrotizing fasciitis, a condition in which bacteria eats away at the muscle and soft tissue directly underneath the skin.

While traditional saunas heat the air or steam to heat the body, infrared saunas use invisible light just below red light frequencies to penetrate and heat up the tissues directly, to a depth of up to 1.5 inches into the skin.

As a result of this infrared heats human tissue directly rather than just the surface of the skin.

Sure, you can get Vitamin C (also known as l - Ascorbic Acid) from your diet, but the most effective way to help it directly target your skin tissue is to apply it topically.

Over time (typically about eight months) these larvae thrive and develop in the bitten cat's body, initially in the subcutaneous tissues directly beneath the skin, then in the muscle tissues and eventually in the right ventricle of the animal's heart, in its lungs and in the arteries associated with those vital organs.

Flaxseed oil is also rich in omega -3-fatty acids, which not only directly condition and nourish the skin, often a problematic area for Cushings patients, but also are naturally anti-inflammatory and protective to the skin, and other tissues and organ systems.

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They can directly penetrate skin and lung tissue, and can be transported inside of cell membranes.