It also owns some 140 patents in skin care technology.

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And the same technology used to grow skin can be used to grow livers and perhaps even hearts outside the body.

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You also can relax at Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star The Mandarin Spa by booking the special Golden Utopia Facial, which combats aging skin with molecular polypeptide, protein technology and a 24-karat gold natural collagen infusion mask.

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So researchers developed a technology that replicates the natural skin of an apple, to provide separation from the dry cookie.

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This patented technology ensures that only real fingerprints are read by converting the properties of the skin into digital data which are delivered to the host computer for analysis.

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It says there is a huge risk that this technology could be misused and lead to clinics where future parents could select the skin and hair color, height, and many other characteristics of their child.

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Our collaborators at TheraJect, who provided the silicone molds to fabricate the microneedle arrays, are using this technology to deliver anti-aging cosmetics (anti-wrinkle creams) to the skin and also for delivery of local anesthetics and, triptan, a drug for migraine treatment.

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Right now, the only medical device based on this technology being sold in the U.S. is a product called TransCyte, which creates artificial skin used for burn patients.

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Dr Richard Bojar, principal research fellow at the skin research centre, said there had been an explosion in the number of different bacteria identified because of better technology, but it did not necessarily have a clinical application.

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