{"id":173983,"date":"2023-10-11T19:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/bioprinted-skin-heals-wounds-in-pigs-with-minimal-scarring-humans-are-next"},"modified":"2023-10-11T19:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T00:24:13","slug":"bioprinted-skin-heals-wounds-in-pigs-with-minimal-scarring-humans-are-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/bioprinted-skin-heals-wounds-in-pigs-with-minimal-scarring-humans-are-next","title":{"rendered":"Bioprinted Skin Heals Wounds in Pigs With Minimal Scarring\u2014Humans Are Next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioprinted-skin-heals-wounds-in-pigs-with-minimal-scarring-humans-are-next3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given these perks, it\u2019s no wonder scientists have tried recreating skin in the lab. Artificial skin could, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/12\/05\/how-robotic-materials-will-distribute-intelligence-all-over-a-robots-body\/\">cover robots<\/a> or prosthetics to give them the ability to \u201cfeel\u201d temperature, touch, or even heal when damaged.<\/p>\n<p>It could also be a lifesaver. The skin\u2019s self-healing powers have limits. People who suffer from severe burns often need a skin transplant taken from another body part. While effective, the procedure is painful and increases the chances of infection. In some cases, there might not be enough undamaged skin left. A similar dilemma haunts soldiers wounded in battle or those with inherited skin disorders.<\/p>\n<p>Recreating all the skin\u2019s superpowers is tough, to say the least. But last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.adf7547\">a team from Wake Forest University<\/a> took a large step towards artificial skin that heals large wounds when transplanted into mice and pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given these perks, it\u2019s no wonder scientists have tried recreating skin in the lab. Artificial skin could, for example, cover robots or prosthetics to give them the ability to \u201cfeel\u201d temperature, touch, or even heal when damaged. It could also be a lifesaver. The skin\u2019s self-healing powers have limits. People who suffer from severe burns [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}