Dermagraft-TC
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Dermagraft-TC which is an artifical skin created from harvested foreskins from infant circumcision.[1] It is made and sold by Advanced Tissue Sciences (ATS), which is a corporation based in La Jolla, CA. Dermagraft-TC is FDA approved,[2][3] and it sells for about $3,000 per square foot; one foreskin contains enough genetic material to grow 250,000 square feet of skin.[4]
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(28 March 2007)."Advanced Tissue Sciences' temporary wound covering Dermagraft-TC approved for marketing by FDA", Transplant News. Retrieved 6 March 2011.
Quote:...the Food and Drug Administration has approved Dermagraft-TC for marketing, making it the first human fibroblast-derived temporary skin substitute to be approved.
- ↑ Circumcision. Daecher M. Icon 1998;2(2):70-3.
