A fully automated process is set to improve the production of artificial tissue: medical scientists can perform transplants with skin produced in the laboratory. This tissue is also suitable for testing chemicals at a low cost without requiring animal experiments.
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Xin Xiong was awarded a BP Young Scientists & Students Award for his doctoral research at Fraunhofer IGB.
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Crude oil is getting more and more expensive, a fact clearly felt by the chemical industry. An alternative source of carbon is biomass, for instance colza and whey, which can likewise be used to produce chemical products.
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Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB