French cosmetics giant L’Oreal is partnering partnering with bioprinting startup Organovo to develop a way to 3D print living, breathing skin to test products on.
L’Oreal currently grows skin samples from tissues donated by plastic surgery patients that are then broken down into cells that are given a diet and “exposed to biological signals that mimic those of actual skin.” Guive Balooch, vice president of L'Oreal's Technology Incubator, told Bloomberg that they "create an environment that's as close as possible to being inside someone's body."
Continue reading…
Continue reading...
L’Oreal currently grows skin samples from tissues donated by plastic surgery patients that are then broken down into cells that are given a diet and “exposed to biological signals that mimic those of actual skin.” Guive Balooch, vice president of L'Oreal's Technology Incubator, told Bloomberg that they "create an environment that's as close as possible to being inside someone's body."
Continue reading…
Continue reading...