The Invention of Artificial Skin
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal. Chemist Ioannis Yannas was working alongside surgeon John Burke when they first made the breakthrough using a membrane made of collagen to cover burns which were too large for skin grafts.
Photo: Professor Ioannis Yannas with some of his collagen membrane. Credit: MIT.
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| 0:19.0 | Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds. Choosing what to |
| 0:32.1 | watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
| 0:36.5 | searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the |
| 0:41.5 | telly we share what we've been watching. |
| 0:43.7 | Cladie Aide! |
| 0:45.7 | Loads of games, loads of fun, loads of screaming. |
| 0:48.2 | Lovely. |
| 0:49.0 | Off the telly with me Joanna Paige. |
| 0:51.2 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:54.7 | searching and a lot more watching listen on BBC sounds hello you're |
| 1:00.0 | listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm Ashley Byrne and today I'm taking you back to 1974 and a revolutionary scientific |
| 1:09.5 | discovery in the United States that would go on to save countless lives around the world. |
| 1:14.6 | I've been speaking with Professor Ianish Janus, one of the inventors of artificial skin. |
| 1:19.8 | Fire injures more than 100,000 people nationwide. |
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