Amanda Schupak

08.29.08

Rebuilding the Troops

For wounded soldiers, the military's Institute of Regenerative Medicine offers dramatic new ways to heal

By Amanda Schupak Posted 06.24.2008 at 5:29 pm 13 Comments

Skin guns. Organ printers. Pig dust. Biochemist Alan Russell believes tools like these could one day be standard-issue for the battlefield medic. The skin gun would heal burns. The organ printer would replace badly wounded livers, kidneys, even hearts. And the pig dust?

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