Brave new skin
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A new type of cultured skin called Apligraf Living Skin Equivalent is being manufactured by Organogenesis of Canton, MA. Since skin-graft operations require hospitalization and often create another wound at the donor site, scientists have turned to cultured skin as a way to promote faster healing of the skin and to provide a readily available product without the need for donor matching. The Apligraf Living Skin Equivalent has proved effective when tested on patients with venous ulcers whose wounds heal on average in seven days, as opposed to 181 days using standard therapy. Cultured skin is actually living skin tissue grown in the laboratory from two common skin cells, usually from foreskins of circumcised infants.
Publication Name: MIT's Technology Review
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 1096-3715
Year: 1997
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Unlicensed Videotapes: Market Menace or Phantom Problem?
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Unlicensed videotapes may evolve into a major problem for the market. Sony and JVC, videotape licensors, say that the problem is not severe and are doing little to resolve the problem. Tape patent infringement is hard to control. Most unlicensed tapes come from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.
Publication Name: Consumer Electronics Monthly
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 0362-4722
Year: 1984
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Dead on
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Writer Stephen Hunter joined the staff of the "Washingtonian" magazine in April 1997 as resident movie critic. Hunter, who has a passion for war movies and thrillers, names films such as "The Wild Bunch" and "Dr. Strangelove" as favorites.
Publication Name: Washingtonian
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0043-0897
Year: 1998
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