Skin Gun: Futuristic Burn Treatment

February 4, 2011 by Wen Duan

From the University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Doctor Jörg Gerlach has created a fast and effective new alternative to skin grafts: the skin gun.

The video clip (from National Geographic) shows Gerlach spraying a patient’s adult stem cells onto the burn area. Applied within 90 minutes, the stem cell application heals the burn within days.

Warning: the video does contain some pretty graphic burn pictures.

About Wen Duan

Wen studies electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley, works as an IT, and participates in high-performance computation research. Along with consuming an absurd amount of television, movies, and books, she is infatuated with making the web her source of media as well as sharing them with anyone she can!

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Comments

Silas Statham says

August 5, 2011 at 11:24 am

Hi. Nice, interesting post, along with a little out of the box. I learned new things today!
Nicholas Drager says

July 24, 2011 at 3:40 pm

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SEOsudo says

February 6, 2011 at 4:00 pm

Wow, that is Amazing!
Dwayne Brown says

February 6, 2011 at 5:51 am

Thanks Joe!
Joe says

February 5, 2011 at 8:34 am

I found another upload of it (mirror image) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5H9Sasq5U for those who are blocked…
Joe says

February 5, 2011 at 8:27 am

Yeah – really annoying when people tell you about something like this and you are blocked from seeing it. At least a warning that it is USA only would be appreciated…save me the time and disappointment…
tom says

February 4, 2011 at 7:48 pm

Damn,

This video contains content from National Geographic, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.