[media][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI&feature=player_embedded[/url][/media]
[quote]The skin gun is not science fiction—it's a prototype medical device that literally sprays skin cells onto burn victims to re-grow skin. Old methods like skin grafts took weeks to heal; the skin gun needs about an hour.
We've heard about the spray-on skin gun back in 2008 but we didn't think it'd become this real, this useful, this fast. Though it is still technically in an experimental stage, the skin gun has already successfully treated over a dozen burn victims. The way it works is by using stem cells from the patient's healthy skin and mixing it with a solution to come up with the spray paint. And combined with that fancy gun, the rest is easy. Doctors say "skin cell spraying is like paint spraying".
The video has some graphic burn images, so don't watch unless you have the stomach for it. This clip will also air on National Geographic's Explorer: How to Build a Beating Heart. Stem cells have long been a point of controversy but this is really wonderful science at work. [National Geographic] [/quote]
Source: [url]http://gizmodo.com/5749968/the-skin-gun-that-sprays-new-skin-on-burn-victims-is-real%5C[/url]
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Videoen omfatter innhold fra National Geographic som har blokkert den i landet ditt, på grunnlag av opphavsrett.
Beklager.
Youtube is junk.
[url]http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/4828/Videos#tab-Videos/09347_00[/url]
Put some coloring in there and you can spray graffiti into your new skin!
Awesome! This could perhaps be used for all sorts of damaged skin.
Just watched the video.
That is fucking amazing, besides his skin being a little red it's like nothing happened to him.
Transhumanism: Its not as crazy as it sounds.
Holy
fuck
[QUOTE=Electrocuter;27824151]Just watched the video.
That is fucking amazing, besides his skin being a little red it's like nothing happened to him.[/QUOTE]
I thought that the guy had only burnt his arm or something and he would show it but his face and shit! Incredible.
Micheal Jackson is singing in his grave.
But other than the shitty joke, this is amazing treatment for burn victims.
So all I have to do is get third degree burns then I can be black?
[QUOTE=JoeyZ;27824665]So all I have to do is get third degree burns then I can be black?[/QUOTE]
Yes of course, you'd be burned.
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;27824047]Put some coloring in there and you can spray graffiti into your new skin![/QUOTE]
future of tattoos
The guy demonstrating the skin gun looks like a mad scientist. I love it.
reminds me of that one fringe episode.
[img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090429030060/fringe/images/7/74/1x14_Seal.jpg[/img]
This is one example of why the moral arguments against stem cell research really don't hold water.
Wow, 2005? Makes you think what kind of things they aren't showing us yet still.
YOU SINNERS ARE ALL GOING TO HELL. BABIES ARE BEING KILLED FOR YOUR SICK EVIL EXPERIMENTS. GOD WILL SMITE YOU HERETICS!
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[QUOTE=Askaris;27824853]This is one example of why the moral arguments against stem cell research really don't hold water.[/QUOTE]
No, morals are morals, regardless of how successful something is. Take the Amish- (Not that they consider modern equipment immoral, but still)- it's still against their beliefs/morals to live with all the modern technology we have no matter how awesome it is.
Fortunately, the moral controversy behind stem cells is long gone. We can get them from tons of other places now with none of the issues that originally caused the debate.
I love that end comparison.
Here's what his hand looked like before.
Now here's what his [i]shoulder[/i] looks like after.
I wonder if this would work for epidermolysis bullosa.
Amazing how far we've come really and even more amazing to think what the next 10-20 years will bring, Stem Cell's should be funded more the possibilities are endless.
[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;27824981]I love that end comparison.
Here's what his hand looked like before.
Now here's what his [i]shoulder[/i] looks like after.[/QUOTE]
No, even better- it said here's what his hand [I]probably[/I] looked like before. Here's what his shoulder looks like now. It definitely left me scratching my head.
Medical science often is the coolest science.
Stop it at 1:33 to see his left hand which is, I'm assuming, the hand they showed in the photo.
[QUOTE=Askaris;27824853]This is one example of why the moral arguments against stem cell research really don't hold water.[/QUOTE]
I thought that the main reason why people were against stem cell research was because of the whole using aborted fetuses thing. Since scientists have found alternative sources for stem cells that don't involve the previously mentioned fetuses there really shouldn't be any arguments against stem cell research.
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[QUOTE=slayer20;27825312]Stop it at 1:33 to see his left hand which is, I'm assuming, the hand they showed in the photo.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure they said that the photos weren't of his actual burns. They said that the pictures were of what second degree burns look like, but not his second degree burns.
How many people has it unsuccessfully treated? I wish they gave that number.
And this is why science is awesome. Amazing 1 piece of technology advanced burn treatment so much.
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