Mentioned in ABC today. Link.Another problem is time. It takes four to six weeks — not to mention plenty of people-power — to make enough skin cells for the manufactured grafts.
While that's happening, surgeons cover deep burns with a synthetic dressing called "biodegradable temporising matrix" or BTM.
It's an invention which came out of the CSIRO in the early 2000s, and is now used on surgeon's tables around the world, says Jo Maitz, a surgeon and leader of the burns and reconstructive surgery research group at Concord Hospital in Sydney.
"It's been something that has really changed the world of burn surgery."
The BTM acts like the dermis, and buys time for engineered skin to be produced. Grafts can then be placed directly over the BTM dressing, which eventually breaks down.
Bronwyn Dearman, principal medical scientist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital's skin engineering laboratory, knows BTM's development well.
She and her colleague John Greenwood conducted studies to refine the material, which was developed in Adelaide.
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