Study shows that bioprinted artificial skin can be used in cosmetics and drugs testing

Medical Xpress January 26, 2023
by Julia Moióli, FAPESP

Bioengineered artificial skin has become an increasingly important and reliable platform for researchers to test the safety and efficacy of drugs and cosmetics. It can be produced on a large scale and is a good substitute for animal testing. The most promising technologies for production of in vitro models include 3D bioprinting.

Because it is recent, however, its performance has yet to be sufficiently validated in comparison to traditional manually produced models. This was the main aim of a study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo’s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences (FCF-USP) in Brazil. The results, reported in an article published in the journal Bioprinting, confirmed that the artificial skin achieved a similar performance.

In the study, the...

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