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 about 5000 skin “equivalents” per month, each with a diameter of roughly one centimeter, at an estimated cost of about €35 (US $49) per piece. (via iee spectrum)
Luckily my body is currently able to produce natural skin for free 
To be honest: this could be a really great success for future transplantations because reportedly the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will be capable of producing synthetic skin with blood vessels by 2013.
