Sidney: "Imagine a car accident victim who has major injuries or a patient who
has just had a piece of skin containing a cancerous lesion removed. The
surgeon places our tropoelastin mesh on the wound and it not only
instructs the wound how to repair, it helps accelerate the healing. It
could reduce the need for hospital stays and for skin grafts". Pr Tony Weiss,
from the University of Sydney, is describing the amazing potential of a
biomedical technology which mimics tropoelastin, the self-assembling
elastic protein which allows the body to repair elastic tissues in the
skin, artery, bladder and lung.
