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Artificial Skin Manufactured In Fully Automated Process

by Pat Coate | May 20, 2009
"This gives us an almost perfect copy of human skin, and one that provides more information than any system currently available on the market."
- Prof. Heike Mertsching, research leader

Skin from a factory -- this has long been the dream of pharmacologists, chemists and doctors.

An interdisciplinary team of Fraunhofer researchers is currently developing the first fully automatic production system for two-layer skin models.

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