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To understand the significance of artificial skin, first consider all sorts of bad things that happen after deep burn. The dead tissue in a burn wound can relea
by infinet 11mo ago
To understand the significance of artificial skin, first consider all sorts of bad things that happen after deep burn. The dead tissue in a burn wound can release toxins and provide nutrients for bacteria to grow, which in turn can spread toxins and infection throughout the body, eventually causing multiple organ failure and death. Early treatment of deep burns focuses on interrupting this cascade reaction by removing the dead tissue. The now-cleaned wound needs to be covered. Skin from many species, including chicken, rat, pigeon, cat, dog, frog, cow, and pig, has been tested, and pig skin was found to be the best. As the wound's condition improves, healthy skin from the same patient is grafted or seeded onto the wound to assist healing. Although pig skin is still widely used, the biggest problem is that it is from a different species and therefore can be immune rejected. Gene-edited pig skin helps, but it may still require immunosuppressive therapy, which is not helpful when the patient is at high risk of infection.
Artificial skin has the potential for better temporary wound cover, and ideally, it can promote healing without skin grafting or using less skin for grafting.
- antegamisou 11mo ago[flagged]
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- squigz 11mo agoThe real slop is dragging AI into every conversation.
- antegamisou 11mo agoThe whole frontpage has been infested with LLM BS for a very long time with absurd claims about it being of landing-on-the-moon levels of breakthrough yet here you are claiming the ones pointing out this fact are the problem.
- squigz 11mo agoPointing out this fact at every possible opportunity, even when grossly inappropriate, is not helpful.
- antegamisou 11mo ago[Someone from the moderation team care to explain the reasoning behind flagging this comment?] Characterizing as grossly inappropriate the statement of the reality of the monopoly on research funding on useless -as of now- AI and not even addressing the initial point is very telling of your dedication to VC brainwashing.
- MichaelZuo 11mo agoSo why do you want to drag debates about that into even closer to 100% of all posts?
- antegamisou 11mo ago[flagged]
- zamadatix 11mo agoThe whole front page has not been any one topic. Just as the whole of the comments on every submission don't bring up AI either. It's just annoying how relatively often both occur, but neither group seems interested on reigning it in any time soon.
- antegamisou 11mo ago[Someone from the moderation team care to explain the reasoning behind flagging this comment?] Your judgement concerning the state of the website since the release of GPT3 is flawed. Just take a look at the amount of comments on non-AI topics like the current one. Not counting yours truly, it's a very low volume conversation for a website for the discussion of stories that are intellectually interesting.