Skin grown in the laboratory can replace animals in drug and cosmetics testing. A team from [b]King’s College London[/b] has grown a layer of human skin from stem cells – the master cells of the body. Stem cells have been turned into skin before, but the researchers say this is more like real skin as it has a permeable barrier, the report says. It offers a cost-effective alternative to testing drugs and cosmetics on animals, they say.
[link url=http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27129861]– BBC News[/link]