Nature knew what she was doing when she designed skin, the body's largest organ. As a covering for the body, nothing else comes close as a first level of defense against infection, trauma, and dehydration. The problem is that skin is always in short supply for the 4 million people plagued by chronic wounds and the more than 50,000 people hospitalized for burn treatment in the United States each year.

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