A team of Canadian scientists has come up with a new form of technology — a handheld 3D skin printer — that might be able to heal deep wounds in just a couple of minutes by evenly printing out layers of skin tissue on top of them.
According to a news release from the University of Toronto, the newly developed 3D printer could work for patients with serious skin wounds, where all three layers (epidermis, dermis, hypodermis) are heavily damaged. Once used on a wounded patient, the printer reportedly takes two minutes or less to form new tissue and deposit it onto the wound. The researchers recently published a paper on the new device in the journal, Lab on a Chip.
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