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Recell Spray-On Skin

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The design that I have chosen for my Design & Technology task is ReCell, spray-on skin. I have chosen this design because I believe that it is one of the most innovative inventions to come from Australia.

ReCell is a patented skin culturing treatment for burns victims, developed by Dr Fiona Wood and scientist Marie Stoner. The procedure focuses on accelerating the treatment of burns on patients to only 5 days of a recovering process. Wood’s treatment is currently undergoing development but is registered under the TGA (Therapeutic Goods Administration) in Australia. I believe that Recell spray-on skin is ethical because it greatly reduces the time of healing after burn treatments and if the wound is responded to quickly, the healed wounds can have little to no scarring. ReCell is also environmentally friendly due to the fact that it promotes the idea of recycling through regenerating skin cells grown in a laboratory to then spray onto the affected wound. This design has been a commercial success …show more content…

She trained in plastic surgery and became Head of the Royal Perth Hospital Burns Unit. Wood gained media recognition in 2002 when 28 victims of the Bali Bombings were sent to Perth to receive treatment for their burns. She had developed the spray-on skin earlier, which greatly reduced the permanence of scarring of the skin in burns victims. Wood utilised her method in 1993 and later co-founded a company with scientist Marie Stoner, to promote spray-on skin internationally. Royalties from the product are used to fund further research into burns treatment through the McComb Foundation, which pursues Wood’s goal of a treatment that promotes ‘scarless, woundless healing’. Dr Wood is a Clinical Professor with the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and Director of the Western Australia Burns Service. She was also Australian of the Year in

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