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'''Dermagraft-TC''' is an artifical [[skin ]] created from harvested foreskins from infant circumcision.<ref name='Advanced Biohealing, 2010'>{{REFweb
|quote=Dermagraft is manufactured from human fibroblast cells derived from newborn foreskin tissue.
|url=http://www.dermagraft.com/about/overview/
|accessdate=2011-03-06
}}</ref> It is made and sold by [[Advanced Tissue Sciences]] (ATS), which is a corporation based in La Jolla, CA. Dermagraft-TC is [[FDA]] approved,<ref name='MediLexicon 2011-03-06'>{{REFweb
|quote=...fibroblast-derived temporary [[skin ]] substitute for the treatment of partial-thickness burns that has been approved for marketing by the FDA.
|url=http://www.medilexicon.com/drugs/dermagraft-tc.php#GeneralInformation
|title=Dermagraft-TC
|date=2007-03-28
|publisher=Transplant News
|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.
|accessdate=2011-03-06
}}</ref> and it sells for about $3,000 per square foot; one foreskin contains enough genetic material to grow 250,000 square feet of [[skin]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Daecher
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