Reptile skin grown in lab for first time, helps study endangered turtle disease
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 14:01
in Biology & Nature
Scientists recently reconstructed the skin of endangered green turtles, marking the first time that skin of a non-mammal was successfully engineered in a laboratory, according to a recently published U.S. Geological Survey study . In turn, the scientists were able to grow a tumor-associated virus to better understand certain tumor diseases.