The initial cell adhesion and spreading activities would be especially important in the use of
artificial skin preparations such as wound dressings and scaffolds for tissue engineering (Min et at.
Letter: efficacy of a self-made
artificial skin in the treatment of chronic ulcers.
The sense of touch gives robots one more sense on which to rely as they find their way around a room or new environment, said Philip Mittendorfer, a scientist who is helping develop the
artificial skin at the university's Institute of Cognitive Systems.
The
artificial skin is described in a September 12th paper in the advanced online publication of the journal Nature Materials.
Artificial skin grafts -- which could be made of silicon or plastic or collagen -- are a temporary cover to buy time for the treatment of wounds at a later stage.
Surgeons had to remove the skin from her entire face and use an
artificial skin substitute and skin grafts from other parts of her body to rebuild it.
She was left blind in one eye and surgeons had to remove the skin from her entire face and use
artificial skin and skin grafts to rebuild it.
TEWL (transepidermal water loss) was checked on
artificial skin after a 1% detergent was added with and without 2% TPNa.
A factory-like approach to tissue engineering may help produce
artificial skin, cartilage, and other body parts quickly and in large quantities, thanks to research at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology.
I was especially intrigued by the information about "smart textiles"--fabrics that may monitor vital signs like blood pressure and temperature or serve as
artificial skin for people with severe bums.
The device allowed fleas to bite through
artificial skin to reach body-temperature cow blood inside.
The only way to correct the
artificial skin tones was to manually increase the brightness of the overall photo, using the onboard brightness control.
