Medical research blooms with 'paper flower' - The Hindu BusinessLine
Medical research blooms with ‘paper flower’ February 14, 2021 IIT-Kanpur researchers seek to grow human skin cells from bougainvillea Who will say no to a ‘bloom-like skin’, especially if it is not just for beauty but also for health? Taking inspiration from nature, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has sought to harvest artificial skin from bougainvillea flowers. The researchers have demonstrated that the flowers of these thorny ornamental bushes have the right ingredients to help “grow” living skin cells — which can have a gamut of indu...
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