22,226
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m
USSC, pages
<!-- [[Image:Advanced Tissue Sciences.jpg|right|thumb|]] -->
'''Advanced Tissue Sciences''' is a corporation based in La Jolla, {{USSC|CA}}. They are the makers of [[Dermagraft-TC]], which is an artifical [[skin ]] created from harvested foreskins [[foreskin]]s from infant [[circumcision]].<ref name='Advanced Biohealing, 2010'>{{REFweb
|quote=Dermagraft is manufactured from human fibroblast cells derived from newborn foreskin tissue.
|last=
|url=http://www.dermagraft.com/about/overview/
|accessdate=2011-03-06
}}</ref> They are also the makers of [[NouriCel]], another product made from harvested foreskins,<ref name='Acroposthion 2011'>{{ REFweb
|quote=TNS contains... NouriCel-MD which is... a combination of Natural Growth Factors, matrix proteins, and soluble collagen. Human Growth Factors extracted from cultured cells of foreskin...
|last=
Dermagraft-TC is FDA approved,<ref>{{REFweb
|quote=Dermagraft-TC is the first human, fibroblast-derived temporary [[skin ]] substitute for the treatment of partial-thickness burns that has been approved for marketing by the FDA.
|last=
|first=
|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-47248437.html
|accessdate=2011-05-07
}}</ref> and it sells for about $3,000 per square foot and one foreskin contains enough genetic material to grow 250,000 square feet of [[skin]].<ref>Circumcision. Daecher M. Icon 1998;2(2):70-3.</ref>
Advanced Tissue Sciences has sold about $1 million worth of cultured dermis to Proctor & Gamble, Helene Curtis, and other such businesses for pre-market testing. Advanced Tissue Science's foreskin-derived merchandise held a $32 million stock offering in the beginning of 1992.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Pitta
|first=Julie
|init=J
|date=1993-05-10
|title=Biosynthetics
|volume=
|chapter=
|pages=170-1711
|location=
|publisher=Forbes
}}</ref>
In 1996 alone, Advanced Tissue Sciences could boast of a healthy $663.9 million market capitalization performance.<ref>{{REFjournal |title=Biotech's Big Discovery. |last=Hall |init=CT. |journal=San Francisco Chronicle. October |date=1996-10-25, 1996: |pages=E1, +E4.}}</ref> {{SEEALSO}}* [[Gail K. Naughton]]
{{REF}}