Lab-Grown Blood and Lymph Capillaries Make an Entrance

Around 11 million people around the world suffer from burns every year; and the resulting deep wounds don't just heal slowly, but also result in lifelong scars. What is needed to reduce this kind of scarring is the grafting of functional full-thickness skin. Only a very limited area of skin can be removed from the individual patient as the surgery, in turn, creates new wounds. Besides conventional skin grafting, another option is to engineer a skin graft in the lab which firstly ...