In a surgery with healing implications ranging from burns to bedsores, doctors here have grafted lab-grown skin onto a baby with an agonizing and potentially deadly disorder.
Two-month-old Tori Cameron is afflicted with epidermolysis bullosa; 70% of her body was covered in blisters at birth. The slightest friction can cause bleeding and scarring.
Monday, in the first such use of the artificial skin, doctors at University of Miami/Jackson Children's Hospital are replacing Tori's skin with the lab product, made from living cells from circumcised foreskin and collagen derived from cows.
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