The Amazing Skin Gun

[smk]

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This is probably one of the most stunning advances in biomedical engineering in a while! I have no idea how this isn't getting more coverage.

[The Vegan Marxist]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI

This is probably one of the most stunning advances in biomedical engineering in a couple years! I have no idea how this isn't getting more coverage.

(As a side note, how do you embed youtube videos into a post?)

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EDIT: That video is absolutely AMAZING! :)

[x371322]

That is incredible.

[Political_Chucky]

holy fucking fuck. When I saw the burns I totally looked away in shock... I can't believe that this has been created and as SMK said, why it isn't getting more coverage. That is amazing and revolutionary.

[The Vegan Marxist]

holy fucking fuck. When I saw the burns I totally looked away in shock... I can't believe that this has been created and as SMK said, why it isn't getting more coverage. That is amazing and revolutionary.

First step towards that skin spray design they portrayed in the movie "I, Robot". :thumbup:

[Fulanito de Tal]

When do they come out with a glow in the dark variation so you can be shit at raves?

[Luisrah]

I can't see it. National Geographic doesn't let me.

What is it? Is it a sort of spray gun that sprays something to your skin to make it better?

[Proukunin]

I can't see it. National Geographic doesn't let me.

What is it? Is it a sort of spray gun that sprays something to your skin to make it better?

It's a gun much like a paint gun, that uses skin cells and sprays them back onto the burnt skin areas. within 4 days the mans 2nd degree burns from face to hand were healed and back to normal.

[Political_Chucky]

Would this be used only for burns or could this be used for deep cuts, substituting stiches?

[Pavlov's House Party]

I'm a bit skeptical after reading this on another site:


I doubt my comment will ever be seen, but:
My degree is in Biomedical Engineering, and this is the sort of device that would be developed by a company similar to the ones that I work for. Based on my education and experience, this is highly sensationalized and "made for TV". The way in which it is presented is misleading.


It doesn't matter if they were spraying adult stem cells on the burn: he would not have fully healed back to normal skin in four days.
When they show him in the studio and say "this is what he looked like after four days" his hair had all regrown and the skin was relatively even. Even if this process healed his skin quickly, there would still be a noticeable "cleft" where the new skin joined to the old skin, and I'd imagine it would persist for weeks or months until the newly healed skin regrew all of the vascular structure and regained thickness.
When someone has substantial burns, you first have to debride the area. Imagine a grill scraper or steel wool being used on the burnt area. You have to scrub away all of the dead skin down to the lowest damaged layer, and all of the skin immediately surrounding it. this means that even smaller burns turn into somewhat larger wounds in the preparation for treatment.
The clip makes it sound like they sprayed him once and he healed in four days. More likely is that they constantly were taking small skin grafts, putting them in a bioreactor, growing more cells, and spraying him multiple times per day for multiple days.
In a situation like this, using experimental technology, it would have been HIGHLY documented. Why did they show pictures saying "this is what he MIGHT have looked like" and "this is what a second degree burn looks like". There's no reason that he wouldn't have given permission for them to use actual images of him, and that brings even more suspicion in my mind.

All in all, while the theory is reasonable, the speed at which they suggest he recovered fully to normal skin is, frankly, outrageous and unbelievable.

[Political_Chucky]

mannnnn............. your like one of those people that ruin a surprise party for somebody when everybody is hiding in their house, and your just like "hey, why is everyone hiding in your house?"

[ckaihatsu]

Would this be used only for burns or could this be used for deep cuts, substituting stiches?


Or how about the whole arm? Volunteers?

[Black Sheep]

Mirrored video for those who can't see the original.
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