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"Skin Factory" is a machine created by German scientists to manufacture human skin using cells from a baby boy’s [[foreskin]]. | "Skin Factory" is a machine created by German scientists to manufacture human [[skin]] using cells from a baby boy’s [[foreskin]]. | ||
The scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute hope the skin they’ve been able to produce will provide a 'humane alternative to using animals' in testing of cosmetics and other products. | The scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute hope the [[skin]] they’ve been able to produce will provide a 'humane alternative to using animals' in testing of cosmetics and other products. | ||
After the cells from the foreskins have multiplied inside the machine, they’re injected into a gel that forces them to grow into a sheet that simulates the epidermis — the outermost layer of human skin. To create a model that simulates human skin, three of these layers are fused together. | After the cells from the [[Foreskin| foreskins]] have multiplied inside the machine, they’re injected into a gel that forces them to grow into a sheet that simulates the epidermis — the outermost layer of human [[skin]]. To create a model that simulates human [[skin]], three of these layers are fused together. | ||
The process of growing new skin takes about six weeks. At present, the Fraunhofer Institute is producing about 5,000 new samples per month.<ref>{{REFweb | The process of growing new [[skin]] takes about six weeks. At present, the Fraunhofer Institute is producing about 5,000 new samples per month.<ref>{{REFweb | ||
| | |title=Skin from the Factory | ||
| | |trans-title=Haut aus der Fabrik | ||
| date=2011-12-20 | |language=Englisch | ||
| title=German scientists grow artificial skin using cells from babies' foreskins | |url=https://www.lifesciences.fraunhofer.de/en/leuchtturmprojekte/geschaeftsfeld_2/hautfabrik.html | ||
| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/german-scientists-grow-artificial-skin-cells-baby-foreskins-article-1.994464#ixzz2GJPOVDJF | |publisher=Fraunhofer-Institut | ||
| publisher=NY Daily News | |accessdate=2020-02-13 | ||
| accessdate=2012-12-26 | }}</ref><ref>{{REFweb | ||
|date=2011-12-20 | |||
|title=German scientists grow artificial skin using cells from babies' foreskins | |||
|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/german-scientists-grow-artificial-skin-cells-baby-foreskins-article-1.994464#ixzz2GJPOVDJF | |||
|publisher=NY Daily News | |||
|accessdate=2012-12-26 | |||
}}</ref> | }}</ref> | ||
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