The skin gun is real, and it's here to heal.

Dr. Jörg C. Gerlach developed the gun, which uses a patient's own cells to help regenerate a burn victims' skin. The gun, which was conceptually discussed by PopSci in 2008, has been successfully used to treat over a dozen patients over so far, according to the National Geographic video below.

And the recovery time is amazing. The example in the video below shows a somewhat miraculous recovery, curing a sencond degree burn in just 4 days.

Older methods like skin grafts take weeks to heal, according to Gizmodo. The whole spray gun process only takes about an hour.

Originally posted by _Phoenix_
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Don't worry I should have said that I edited my post, check it out.

Originally posted by Xcathdra

Originally posted by _Phoenix_
reply to post by Xcathdra

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Don't worry I should have said that I edited my post, check it out.

Doesnt look like anything was edited from what I am seeing lol. Either or I added a secondary link to the video so hopefully others will be able to use that to see how it works.

biotechnology-innovation.com.au...
Following her work done for victims of the terrorist attack in Bali, Dr Fiona Wood's unique solution for burns victims has attracted worldwide acclaim. Currently Director of the West Australian Burns Service and co-founder/Director of Clinical Cell Culture Ltd, this pioneering doctor's technique known as 'spray-on skin,' helped to substantially reduce the death toll of the Bali bombings. Wood's method allows for the rapid administration of skin cells, speeding up the healing process and significantly reducing scarring. Where previous techniques of skin culturing required 21 days to produce enough cells to cover major burns, Wood's innovative technique has cut this time to 5 days.

Research has shown that scar formation is significantly reduced if the wound heals quickly. A burn wound that takes 21 days or more to heal has a greater than 70% risk of developing a significant scar, compared to a burn wound that heals in less than 10 days, which has only a 4% risk of developing a hypertrophic scar. Hence it is imperative to treat burns as soon as possible in order to reduce scarring and improve the patient's ability to move and function in society.

The development of skin cell transplant technology began in 1990, when Dr Wood was treating patients for serious burn injuries. Treating large burn injuries traditionally involves applying cultured skin in the form of sheets to the wound. The skin sheets are grown from skin cells obtained from the patient but usually take 14-21 days to produce. Dr Wood discovered that scarring could decrease if the wound could be treated within 10 days. She found that although skin sheets produced in 10 days often had holes in them, these areas healed faster than those treated with confluent sheets, and with less obvious scarring, because the cells had not achieved total confluence. And thus, a new technique was born.