Technology has helped medicine to progress a great deal. A latest breakthrough is the printer like device from Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine. This printer like device is a fantastic innovation that stands as a fabulous alternative to skin grafting. This device is a superb alternative to skin grafting – this is smarter, faster, efficient and techier. Let’s have a look at this breakthrough tech toy.
A Brief about this ‘Breakthrough’
This is a printer-like device that provides a faster and a smarter alternative to delicate skin grafting. Eventually, it could also be used to treat other wounds.
The device has a tank which holds a mixture of harvested skin cells, stem cells, and nutrients, and a computer-controlled nozzle that sprays skin on the exact location where it is required.
The working of this device is similar to the working of a colored printer, first spraying down a layer of fibroblast skin cells as a substrate and then blasting on a layer of protective keratinocyte cells.
Does this really work or is it just another tech fiction?
The device does seem to work actually. Some initial tests were conducted on a wounded lab mouse and it was seen that the process did work. Besides, this was smarter and faster as compared to skin grafting. This printer-like device healed the wounds in two weeks which is much faster than skin grafting which usually takes 5 weeks.
What’s next?
Next, pigs are to follow the tech fad which was initiated on mice. After successful tests on mice, the guys doctors at Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine are looking forward to perform these tests on pigs’ skin which closely resembles human skin. Eventually, the doctors will move to try these tests on humans…
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