Monday, April 25, 2011

Integumentary System

If you look in the text book p. 932 you will see how doctors and scientists have been making artificial skin for use in emergengy situations. Check out this video and see some cutting edge medical advances in skin repair; basically they are spray painting new living skin cells onto the burn victims.

skin-cell-spray-gun

2 comments:

  1. i was windering, is it true that if you shave your head then your hair will grow back thicker? because my dad shaved my sisters head when she was a baby and hers is thicker than mine and my sisters.Is it because of that? Or is it like concidence

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  2. No, it doesn't grow back thicker. However because hair tapers at the end, it seems to be thicker when it is first shaved.

    http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hair-removal/an00638

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