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October 30, 2007
Some Quality Face Time with Research at Case Western
We can make you stronger, faster, better.
Thanks to Radhika Atit we may one day make a whole new you. Atit is currently researching the growth of face skin cells in the hope of being able to grow replacement skin for people with an facial injury. Her hope is to generate fully-functioning skin cells that give full sensory function to even growing new hair.
"The goal is to create synthetic functional skin using one's own cells," Atit said. "The problem so far in skin regeneration is that they don't have competent dermis, and without dermis, they have no functional parts of the skin." –Atit
The dermis is the layer of skin cells under the top layer that is the living and regenerating part of the skin. Atit hopes to use mice to understand how the dermis forms from blank precursor cells that can also form a multitude of structures.
http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2007/09/28/atit
Posted by sja15 at October 30, 2007 12:00 AM
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