Artificial skin ‘could benefit people with medical alert jewellery’

Scientists have generated artificial human skin which could help with new treatments in the future.

Researchers from the University of Granada in Spain revealed the skin was developed using tissue engineering and the findings can be applied in future research and help to avoid laboratory testing on animals.

Human skin samples were taken through biopsies from consenting plastic surgery patients the local University Hospital in Granada.

A combination of donated human fibrin with elements such as tranexamic acid, and calcium chloride created a skin substitute that showed ‘adequate biocompatibility rates with no rejection of inflection reported.

Professor Jose Maria Jimenez Rodriguez, who led the study, suggested they have ‘created a more stable’ substitute with a ‘similar functionality to normal human skin’.

Artificial skin could end up helping patients, including those who wear medical alert jewellery, who would previously require grafts of their own skin in certain surgical treatments.

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