"Skin cell gun" regenerates cells in days

[Demeter]

YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THE VIDEO!

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/02/04/skin_gun_burn_victims/index.html

[Ezlivin]

1. Arm EVERY doctor!

This is the kind of gun every doctor should have.

Thanks for posting the link. It's a remarkable breakthrough!

[siligut]

2. This is so needed.

I am thrilled at seeing this! And no problem with the stem cells because they are harvested from the patient. Again, thrilling news for a very difficult and painful condition. And it isn't scar tissue, it is skin! Some of the worst is after healing, the burn patients were scarred, sometimes on their faces and sometimes horrifically.

[MilesColtrane]

3. It's nice to see medical technology catching up with Star Trek.

[txlibdem]

11. This is sooo cool. And yes, it's Star Trek

But if Star Trek hadn't come up with the technology, would this guy have made it a reality?

Science Fiction presages reality again, just as Arthur C. Clarke's communications satellites, Star Trek's flip phones, and multidimensional travel (I am currently traveling in 4 dimensions!).

[AC_Mem]

4. This is incredible!

It is breakthroughs like this that CAN bring America or the world, back to prosperity! Find ways to HELP humanity through ingenuity.

Modern medicine without the side effects, helping our fellow man.

It makes me feel so good to see this.

Annette

[Demeter]

5. I'm Surprised It's American...

given the unwillingness of TPTB to do anything for people in general, including basic research in medicine...

[MineralMan]

6. Why are you surprised? We develop breakthrough medical

stuff all the time in this country. Perhaps you're just not looking very hard for positive things.

[Frisbee]

14. But don't be too surprised...

if when they come to market they say "Made in China" on the back.

[Howler]

7. Wow!

AMAZING! you couldn't even tell he was burned after the treatment.
Though it makes me wonder how much surgery it would take to get the person who threw the gasoline unto the fire head unstuck from their ass.

[TommyO]

8. Except for the slight difference in color due to the tanning of his older skin

you're right. This is truly amazing, I saw it earlier this week and have already shared it with quite a few people, including a family friend whose child had multiple second and some third degree burns after pulling a frying pan off the counter many years ago. This technology would most certainly have reduced the child's suffering during the long recovery

[Howler]

9. And seriously minimized the burn scarring. n/t

n/t

[midnight]

10. K&R

[yurbud]

12. astonishing.

[PADemD]

13. I wonder if this would also work on skin cancer. nt

[Bill USA]

15. amazing. How can anybody write science fiction these days. It's hard to beat science fact!

I was going to say this is a "Star Trek" moment but Coltrane basically beat me to it!