The skin gun is no longer science fiction. A doctor has created a prototype medical device that literally sprays skin cells onto burn victims to re-grow skin.

Once grafts took weeks, but now the skin gun does the work in under two hours and the burns heal within days. It has successfully treated over a dozen patients so far.

Doctor Jörg Gerlach, of the University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has discovered a method which regenerates healthy skin stem cells from the victim and sprays it on the burned skin.

How the skin gun works in three stages. The operation takes about about 90 minutes to spray on the new skin and the healing takes days rather than weeks.

Though scientists have been able to regenerate sheets of skin for decades, it is a lengthy process and the resulting skin is extremely fragile.

Patients are open to dangerous infections as they heal and some burns victims can die while they are waiting, even with the right care and dressing.

The stem cell shooting spray gun treats the skin in 90 minutes and reduces healing time to days.
Stem cells are known for their ability to renew themselves and act as a repair system for the body.

(Source: tehrandoctors.net)