New device helps burn patients

Burn injuries are a major problem on the battlefield, but there may be a solution in the works that will someday allow patients to simply grow new skin. It was all inspired by something you can find at a neighborhood office supply store. "The concept is one where you use your typical desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink in the cartridge, you use cells," said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of Wakey Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. "You use a printer to keep printing the tissue one layer at a time."
Atala and his team can position this device, called a bioprinter, anywhere a burn patient needs new skin. So far, the results are promising. Some wounds with bioprinting healed weeks faster than those that were treated with traditional methods.

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[Chopsta123]

"helps burn patients"? really?