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I really want this to work, but it seems too good to be true, which bring my Dubious Dave side to the front:

Sources: Avita Medical, Wikipedia, New South Wales Dept. of Health

Image credits: Avita Medical

If it's actually been successful at treating "thousands of patients in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, and Australia (among many other countries)", why is New South Wales the only potentially medically-reliable / non-conflicted source? Why do all of the source links go to top level pages instead of specific data?

I really hope that it's real and that they get the approvals, though.




Here's a news posting from an academic site: http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/news/article.asp?qEmpID=328

Not exactly what you asked for, but I think this is the research institute where some or all of this technology was developed.

The skin gun was featured on an episode of National Geographic a few months ago. This and other types of organ replacement using adult stem cells are becoming a reality very quickly.

Many biologists think the next 50 years will yield advancements in bio-tech at the pace we've seen advancements in computers in the last 50. I think its pretty exciting.


It has the downside that when you use it, someone somewhere, whom you've never met, dies.




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