I read an article about engineering skin, and I thought that it was kind of interesting and it has been approved by the U.S Food and Drug Association (FDA).
In the lab, they grow cartilage and skin and it goes to the need of severely burned victims. They are working their way up making bones so it can help people that have artheritus and blood vessel, muscle tissue and cardiac valves could save a ton of people with cardiovascular diseases. FDA believes that custom made hearts, bone marrow, and bladders are the best ideas for most life threatening illnessess. At the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrications Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hopsital, doctors say they are working on 30 different tissues today.
So, I guess that you have been severely burned or are seriously injured that you have no skin left in that area, a non- used skin would be better than not having anything to protect your body from that type of injury or whatever. Cardiovascular diseases happen when the function of you heart or blood vessels are abnormal. It can make a person more suspect able to heart attacks, heart failure, stroke, and even worse, sudden death. I would much rather have a lab-grown function of some type to help me from fearing that I could die.
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