Wound Healing

Genetically Engineered Skin Substitute Designed

Published in Blood Weekly, April 12th, 2001

Bioengineers at the University at Buffalo, New York, and Shriners Burns Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, have created a genetically engineered skin that expresses a protein that promotes wound healing.

It is believed to be the only artificial tissue designed to express keratinocyte growth factor, KGF.

Their research, published April 1, 2001, in the FASEB Journal of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology, suggests that a skin substitute could be developed that would accelerate the generation of new skin following severe injuries or burns. Currently, there is no U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved skin substitute...

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