This is the blog for GW students taking Human Evolutionary Genetics. This site is for posting interesting tidbits on: the patterns and processes of human genetic variation;human origins and migration; molecular adaptations to environment, lifestyle and disease; ancient and forensic DNA analyses; and genealogical reconstructions.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

3D printing human skin pigmentation


A recent paper in a journal call Biofabrication (?!) describes a method for printing "pigmented human skin constructs". Although this was only a proof-of-concept paper, the ultimate application would be for pigment-correct skin grafts.  That sounds pretty great, actually.

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