Success in creating human-like skin, Australian scientists have created it in the lab

Scientists in Australia created artificial skin in the lab: Scientists in Australia have succeeded in creating the world's first fully developed human skin with a blood supply in the laboratory. This achievement will lead to better results in the treatment of skin diseases, treatment of skin damaged by burns and in the process of skin transplantation. This replica of human skin, created by a team of researchers from the University of Queensland using stem cells, has blood vessels, hair, nerves and immune cells just like real skin.

Abbas Saifi, a tissue engineering and regenerative medicine scientist and lead researcher at the University of Queensland's Fraser Institute, said that this real human skin model will be useful in studying diseases and testing their treatments more precisely. Until now, scientists have done limited work in studying human skin diseases and developing new treatments for them. But now, with this real human skin model, we will be able to study diseases in more detail and test the effectiveness of treatments. It will also be useful for us in developing new treatments.

According to the study published in the publication Wiley Advanced Healthcare Materials, it took six years to develop this artificial skin. Abbas Saifi said about the method of developing this human skin that due to recent advances in the field of stem cells, we were able to engineer a three-dimensional skin lab model. The team took human skin cells and reprogrammed them as stem cells. These new cells can be used to make skin for any part of the human body.

These stem cells were placed in a petri dish and developed, creating a mini version of the skin. Which is called a skin organoid. Then we took the same stem cells and developed small blood cells. Which we attached to this growing skin. As a result, it has been able to develop layers, hair, pigmentation, veins and most importantly, its own blood supply system, just like natural human skin.

Professor Kiarash Khosrowtehrani, a participant in this research, said that this skin model will be useful in treating genetic diseases such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis and scleroderma and in the process of skin transplantation. These skin diseases are difficult to treat, but this new achievement has raised hopes that the treatment of patients with these stubborn skin diseases will be better.