Sounds unremarkable until you consider its intended application as a human tissue replacement.
It quickly burned holes through the cold cuts, which are a good proxy for human tissue.
The Human Tissue Bill, currently before Parliament, makes it compulsory to gain consent before taking organs.
And that's entirely appropriate, because Naughton makes high-tech Band-Aids out of human tissue.
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The act gave formal guidance for the first time on human tissue retention and the process of notifying families involved.
What they do is they preserve and distribute human tissue for transplantation, and also devices for cardiac and vascular applications.
It has proved itself on models of human tissue, though, and is about to be tested on the real thing.
Instead, they were looking for a better way to make fresh human tissue for the treatment of severe injuries or disease.
The Human Tissue Bill currently going through Parliament aims to prevent future organ scandals by making consent the cornerstone of legislation.
Professor Bruce Drinkwater from Bristol even suggested it could one day be used to assemble human tissue (custom assembled livers, anyone?).
The prion is a protein, thought to linger in human tissue, potentially for many years, before any symptoms begin to emerge.
Groups like the one in Missouri are also investigating exactly how different types of human tissue and bone react to femtosecond lasers.
In the U.S., some universities and corporate laboratories are conducting research on "bioprinting, " or artificial construction of body parts using living human tissue.
Dr Bongso, however, has managed to derive feeder cells from human tissue, and this time, he has been sure to patent his invention.
Scientists believe that the scarring which characterises human tissue repair is still going on, but is "overwhelmed" by energetic production of new muscle fibres.
Recipients first must go through an application process that includes a pledge not to profit from trade in human tissue, which is against U.S. law.
Recipients first must go through an application process that includes a pledge not to profit from trade in human tissue, which is against federal law.
The coroner heard how detectives established that Ms Armitage was dead even though they had only recovered a small piece of human tissue belonging to her.
Growing human tissue is old hat, but being able to measure activity inside flesh is harder -- any electrical probing tends to damage the cells.
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It also wants a human tissue register to back up new rules on the retention of organs, published by the Royal College of Pathologists last month.
After the forensic medicine department at King's College London closed, human tissue samples and organs held by the department were transferred to Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals.
Working at this crossroads has enabled him to make huge leaps in the field of drug delivery systems and to design biodegradable polymers on which human tissue can grow.
The wishes of the deceased are given primacy under the Act (Human Tissue Act 2004), and the Welsh Government will not deviate from this important principle under the new legislation.
The Department of Health said the Alder Hey report had led to "widespread public debate" and consultation involving professional, research and family groups which had led to the Human Tissue Bill.
In order to be useful to scientists, cells derived from embryos also must be able to divide almost endlessly and be able to turn into any type of human tissue, at least in theory.
It also kept 126 samples registered as category two, which are defined as "samples of human tissue which are not a significant part of the body - for example small tissue samples, blocks, slides, etc".
Body parts belonging to Ms Blamires were found in the River Aire in Shipley on 25 May and tests confirmed that a small piece of human tissue later found in the water belonged to Ms Armitage.
The burial would be the final part of a process developed by the University of Liverpool and Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, which complies with the Human Tissue Authority Code of Practice issued in 2005.
The Acpo audit was sparked following a series of inspections by the Human Tissue Authority in 2009, asking for details of category three human tissue - significant body parts including organs and limbs - held by police before the Human Tissue Act came into force in 2006.
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