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Cell Lines Replicate Human Skin

July 30th, 2010 No comments

It’s a huge challenge: skin must be waterproof, flexible and a barrier against infection. Both the cells that make up the outermost layer of the skin and the structure of how the cells fit with each other must be duplicated. So far, no one has figured out how to synthetically make our body’s largest organ. Read more…