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Biotech / Medical : XOMA. Bull or Bear? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cacaito who wrote (8264)	1/12/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: Tharos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17367

Not Xoma related, just neat stuff... MIAMI (AP) - An 8-week-old girl with a potentially fatal skin disease that causes severe blistering with the slightest touch received a patch of bio-engineered Monday, doctors said. The child is the first newborn to be given the faux skin, called Apligraf, and it is also the first time the skin is being used for a purpose other than healing wounds or for venous leg ulcers, said Dr. Lawrence Schachner, one of the girl's doctors. Since she was 11 days old, doctors at Jackson Children's Hospital have been applying the new skin to Tori Cameron's body, which is now 40% covered. She received a 7-centimeter patch of the elastic, bone-colored laboratory skin Monday on her blistered right calf. See infobeat.com