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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joshua Korman, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Reconstructive Technologies, Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N / ; C12N / ; A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
4352831 ; 435325 ; 623 15 ;
Abstract
A method of growing complete vertebrate skin in vitro, which comprises obtaining a segment of vertebrate skin, positioning the skin segment in an artificial cell-growth medium containing sufficient nutrients to maintain growth of cells of the skin, and subjecting the skin segment to stretching forces while the skin segment is in the medium. Skin produced by the method and an apparatus for carrying out the method are also part of the present invention.