A biotech company is collecting human skin donated from cosmetic surgery and keeping it alive for testing

Genoskin

• Genoskin is a company that takes leftover skin from cosmetic surgeries, keeps it alive, and provides it to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries for testing.
• The samples are kept in a gel that keeps them alive and nourished for 7 days, during which they behave like skin on the body.
• The company — which gets permission from its donors — says the process meets international ethical standards and is an alternative to animal testing. 
• The samples can tan, grow hair, and even heal if they are hurt.
• They can be used to test everything from the effects of UV light on skin, to immune responses, to toxic substances.
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Genoskin is a company that has figured out how to keep human skin alive for up to a week away from the body, and is using their tech to provide testing samples to the biotech, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. 

The company distributes little buttons of skin — kept alive in a cup of secret-recipe gel — that behave a lot like skin on our bodies. It's the closest thing to a real human test subject. 

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