• Question: has anyone ever successfully grown skin to use in a skin graft or is it all still in trials?

    Asked by anon-322492 on 1 Apr 2022.
    • Photo: Elpida Vounzoulaki

      Elpida Vounzoulaki answered on 24 Mar 2022:

      Sorry this is outside my field so I unfortunately cant answer

    • Photo: Chigozie Onuba

      Chigozie Onuba answered on 25 Mar 2022: last edited 25 Mar 2022 6:15 am

      Not within my area of practise, so unable to answer.

    • Photo: Rebecca Locke

      Rebecca Locke answered on 29 Mar 2022:

      This isn’t really my area and I think it’s mostly in trials, but I did some cell experiments during an internship to try and correct the collagen gene in a skin blistering disease called epidermolysis bullosa (EB) once. I know that in Germany there was a case where they managed to take a small graft from a child with EB, isolate the stem cells which renew themselves, introduce a corrected copy of a gene called LAMB3 so the collagen functioned correctly into the stem cells and then grew this up and grafted it onto the child so his wounds healed. So cool that this can be done!

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