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Comment »Posted on Sunday 25 April 2010 at 7:25 pm by Jacob Aron
In Biology, Health & Medicine, Inventions & Technology, Weekly Roundup, Yes, But When?
Print your own skin
Researchers funded by the US military are working on a way of printing new human skin as a treatment for burn victims. What’s more, they’ve using a regular inkjet printer and cartridges filled with human skill cells:
Grow your own font
Typographer Craig Ward has developed a typeface with a difference – each letter was grown from live cells and moulded into the correct shape.
