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Robots can now be built with living humanlike skin

Skin has traditionally been reserved for animals – until now. For the first time, scientists learned to grow humanlike skin on a robotic finger using cells, a new study revealed. Unlike artificial ...
Futurism

Scientists Create Robot “Finger” With Living Skin That Looks Like, Um

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a fleshy and “slightly sweaty” robotic finger, covered in a pink layer of living skin, grown from human skin cells. The rather phallic looking result ...
Business Wire

Zip® Surgical Skin Closure from ZipLine® Medical, Inc. Honored as Gold Winner in the 2014 Medical Design Excellence Awards

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZipLine® Medical today announced that the Zip® Surgical Skin Closure has been selected as the Gold Winner in the “Surgical Equipment, Instruments, and Supplies ...
Business Wire

Patients and Physicians Prefer Zip Surgical Skin Closure over Staples in First Head-to-Head Comparison of the Device versus Staples During Bilateral Knee Surgery

CAMPBELL, Calif. & DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZipLine® Medical, Inc. today announced results from the first study to assess Zip® Surgical Skin Closure versus surgical staples for closure in the same ...
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Skin closure options for cesarean delivery: Glue vs. subcuticular sutures

In a study to be presented Thursday, Jan. 26, in the oral concurrent session at 1:15 p.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, researchers will ...