Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
by tomjakubowski on Monday May 22, 2017 @12:23AM
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Speculation: skin grafts can be grown basically endlessly from a donated foreskin. Circumcision is more common in the US than in Brazil. As for other organ shortages, well, if a single foreskin can produce even ~100 square meters of skin grafts, you don't need very many of them to meet a country's skin needs. And ~100 m^2 of grafts per foreskin appears to be quite the lowball: http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1999/02/17...
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Re:Brazilian city uses tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
by semi-extrinsic on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:26AM
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I'd guess also cosmetic surgery in the US produces quite a bit of human skin, although that's not expandable into skin grafts like the foreskin technique you link to.