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Briefing
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- Artificial Skin – Cosmetics giant Loreal making artificial skin for product testing, called EpiSkin, as alternative to using animals, sold to other cosmetics, pharmaceutical, chemical, and household products manufacturers
- Mass Production – Loreal Predictive Evaluation Center in Lyon, France produces more than 100,000 human skin tissue samples per year, each 0.5 square centimeters in size
- Ongoing Partnership – Partnering with biotech company Organovo to bioprint human tissues using 3D printing technology
- Competition – Biotechnology firm MatTek produces two adult’s worth of human skins every week at facilities in Massachusetts and Slovakia, and aims to connect artificial skin to other organs-on-a-chip
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