Also: tissue-engineered skin, Integra, cultured epidermis
Burn and wound patients have been treated with artificial skin scaffolds and with sheets of skin cells grown in the lab, including genetically corrected skin.
Readiness: lab lab studies · prototype demonstrated objects · commercial products or buildings in real use · review summaries of other studies.
Burke, Yannas and colleagues successfully used a collagen-based artificial skin on patients with extensive burns.
Built / tested: artificial dermis
As reported in: BURKE, YANNAS, QUINBY et al. (1981). Successful Use of a Physiologically Acceptable Artificial Skin in the Treatment of Extensive Burn Injury. Annals of Surgery. doi:10.1097/00000658-198110000-00005
Hirsch and colleagues regrew most of a boy's skin using genetically corrected stem cells for the blistering disease epidermolysis bullosa.
Built / tested: transgenic epidermis grafts
As reported in: Hirsch, Rothoeft, Teig et al. (2017). Regeneration of the entire human epidermis using transgenic stem cells. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature24487