• Question: do you create skin?

    Asked by 225arth28 to Sophie on 9 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Sophie Cox

      Sophie Cox answered on 9 Mar 2017:

      Hi 222arth28,

      We don’t create skin but we have made some product to help repair damaged skin. For example we have made a dressing to use on people who get burnt. We’ve done some testing which shows our dressing helps to reduce scarring, which is really exciting!

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  • Photo: Daniel

    Daniel commented on :

    Hey 225arth28,
    The model that I work with can be used to grow skin! The method is very much the same, and the actual make up and structure of skin is very similar to the model that I use – it is layered with epithelial cells (the outermost layer), then have a collagen matrix and fibroblast cells (with many others too), but thats the basis of it!

    If you use cells from the mouth in my model, you’re more likely to get a musical model (the mouth model), but if you use skin derived cells, then you will get a skin model as they behave and mature differently 🙂