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"What television does is rent us friends and relatives who are quite satisfactory. This is quite something, to rent artificial friends and relatives right inside the house."
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![]() The term is probably a contraction of artificial derma.
One of the earlier uses of this idea was created several years ago; Dr. Fiona Wood and scientist Marie Stoner of Perth, Australia. In response to trying to treat a patient with burns over 90% of her body, the pair created a procedure to spray skin cells directly onto the body.
The Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine has been working on a skin cell gun to spray healing stem cells onto an open wound.
![]() (Skin cell gun) The skin cell gun was announced by Dr. Gerlach in 2008 — it sprays cells onto burned areas in a fine mist which expedites healing and reduces scaring is shown below with a photograph of Dr. Gerlach holding the device.
![]() (Dr. Gerlach holds skin cell gun) SF fans probably also recall the artificial skin gun demonstrated in the 2004 movie I, Robot (although it's not clear if this gun sprayed paint or living tissue).
![]() (Skin cell gun from I, Robot) Also, see an earlier reference to this idea from Robert Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters - surrogate skin. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'... the imprint of her image on the telephoto cell.'
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