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artificial skin from the conveyor belt

Posted by maz on August 6th, 2009

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is now able to produce affordable synthetic skin with a new automation process.

credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
It’s an ”almost perfect copy of the human skin,” says Professor Heike Mertsching, one of the coordinators of Fraunhofer’s Automated Tissue Engineering on Demand project.
That system, to be made commercially available by the end of 2010, is expected to produce [...]