For testing skin cream, synthetic skin may be as good as the real thing
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 10:20
in Health & Medicine
New research suggests that currently available types of synthetic skin may now be good enough to imitate animal skin in laboratory tests, and may be on their way to truly simulating human skin in the future. Researchers compared the response of synthetic skins to rat skin when they were both exposed to a generic skin cream treatment, and the results indicated they both reacted similarly.