Posted on 02/03/2011 12:26:41 PM PST by decimon
A remarkable device called the spray on skin gun is featured in a YouTube video from an upcoming National Geographic TV special. The skin gun promises to be a boon to burn victims as much as penicillin was to people with infections.
The way the spray on skin gun works is that a burn victim's healthy stem cells are taken from his skin, are cultured in a liquid bath, and then are sprayed on the burned parts of his body. Within days, the burn is healed. The man in the video, who had severe second-degree burns on his face and arm, was completely healed within four days.
The spray on skin gun has been under development for the past couple of years by the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Modern war has caused a number of burn casualties that the military is keenly interested in finding better ways to treat. So far the kin gun, developed by Dr. Jorge C. Gerlach, has successfully treated 12 people with severe burn injuries.
Typically a burn victim must spend weeks and even months waiting for skin grafts to take hold, with the accompanying agony and risk of serious infection. The spray on skin gun reduces this recovery time to days or even hours.
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That’s wonderful.
adult stem cells ping
Thanks decimon
I think this is astounding. And an M.D.’s dream come true. Now there will be something you, or the generic you, can do for burn victims. For the time being, I guess, this will be in hospitals only but maybe it will spread to the field.
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Chemical burns. I guess the sort of skin damage wouldn't matter.
Growing a replacement skin by culturing surviving skin cells on burn victims was tried in the, hmm, early 1980s. This approach howver is new to me. Thanks decimon.
WOW...
Wow. Sent this to my Daughter who will be starting her BioMedical Engineering studies this fall. Great stuff and thanks for the post.
You’re welcome.
BioMedical Engineering. She should have a good future in a worthy field.
What Germany did in WW2 to Jews left a mark upon the nation that may never heal.
But....they have a shot at redemption by refusing an Islamic toehold in their country, a 100% Islamic ban, no literature, no Mosques, no Sharia laws.
Send them on a vacation.
interesting
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