Experts of the Institute of the Medical Faculty in Kragujevac are a step away from the final goal: production of human skin in laboratory conditions.
Professor Zoran Milosavljevic, chief of the research team and also Head of the Department for histology at the Medical Faculty says that the goal is developing of their own methodology for making large portions of skin in a laboratory.
‘After clinical tests the laboratory made skin can be kept frozen in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees’, Professor Milosavljevic says.
At the Institute of the Medical Faculty in Kragujevac they say that in ideal conditions a nail-size peace of skin can produce a skin of a writing table size.
Professor Milosavljevic says that the team is working in minimal conditions and that for opening of a bank of skin the team would need a financial help in equipment valid less than EUR 100,000.
