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Dermagraft-TC which 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/ | title=Dermagraft-TC: Overview | last= | first= | publisher=Advanced Biohealing, Inc. | website= | date= | 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 | last= | first= | publisher=MediLexicon | website= | date= | accessdate=2011-03-06
}}</ref><ref name='Transplant News 2007-03-28'>{{REFnews
| last= | first= | coauthors= | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-47248437.html | title=Advanced Tissue Sciences' temporary wound covering Dermagraft-TC approved for marketing by FDA | 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 | first=M. | coauthors= | title=Circumcision | journal=Icon | date=1998 | volume=2 | issue=2 | pages=70-73 | url= | quote= | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | accessdate=
}}</ref>