From Talos, the giant bronze automaton who guarded the princess Europa in ancient Greek myths, to Cylons and Terminators, the idea of artificial humans has both fascinated and creeped us out for centuries.
– cells that produce the proteins that form our skin's structural matrix. These are the main parts of skin's connective tissue.
In the footage below, the electrostatically charged polystyrene bead sticks to the finger without an epidermis, making it harder for the finger to manipulate. Remarkably, the artificial skin can also be healed with a collagen bandage, which the living cells take and integrate into their system to help fill in the damage.While the results are quite amazing, the lab-grown tissue is still very limited.
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