Scientists Find Way to Mass Produce Human Skin

Posted by John Farrier in Medicine, Science & Tech on July 16, 2009 at 1:38 pm


This development from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Science Institute in Germany has made the creation of human skin much cheaper:

The basic skin production system, which Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft hopes to start selling next year, can produce 5,000 little swatches of human skin a month, for a total of over 600 square inches of mass-produced tissue. Each 0.12-square-inch section of skin would cost around $49 to produce, far less than the current cost.

The system, which should be available in 2010, is fully automated, with computers controlling the solution that the skin grows in, monitoring the vats for infection, guiding the blade that cuts the swatches, and even testing the quality of the final product. So far, this project has generated 19 patents for Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

Potential applications include not only helping burn victims, but replacing lab animals in product safety testing. Also, robots probably won’t have to forage as much for the taste of human flesh.

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11 comments to "Scientists Find Way to Mass Produce Human Skin"

  1. Parahaps
    July 16th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    That's $1.2 million for one person's worth of skin. Resurfacing humans is expensive!

  2. star4578
    July 16th, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Wow! Fascinating, but disturbing.

  3. NicholasTack
    July 16th, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    I'll never go hungry again!

  4. coraleaterlinda
    July 16th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Wow, that's awesome!

  5. vonskippy
    July 16th, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    How long before they do a sofa?

  6. ted
    July 16th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    I'm waiting for the lampshades.

  7. healthylivinggal83
    July 17th, 2009 at 12:49 am

    wow,that's a gr8 success!!!

  8. Him
    July 17th, 2009 at 1:04 am

    This is pretty cool, and is probably even cooler for the burn victims out there.

  9. Robolasse
    July 17th, 2009 at 1:31 pm

    At last i can get my leather mask.

  10. paul cox
    July 17th, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    i get it all, but my addmitedly humble opinion would be that skin should be free, cus, what the fuck are we paing the state for...

  11. Chris Scharling
    July 19th, 2009 at 9:28 am

    This will really help move along the development of the T1000's.


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