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INSTEAD OF CUTTING skin from a patient’s leg to close up a wound, surgeons can now grab a sheet of living, lab-grown skin from the fridge and start suturing. This year, Intercytex carried out the first successful artificial skin implants using its ICX-SKN patches. The trick is a little weird, but ingenious: Patches grow from cells plucked from discarded neonatal foreskin. The young cells lack proteins that can trigger an immune response, so they won’t be rejected, and they merge with the patient’s own skin in less than a month. intercytex.com
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