Scientists Growing Skin Artificially
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Margaret Stanley and George Lamberty at Addenbrooke's Hospital describe benefits from growing skin in the laboratory.
Interviews about the potential benefits of skin culture developments at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. No patients are shown, but the technique of growing skin in a laboratory will improve the recovery prospects for patients with burns and other skin injuries.
Dr Margaret Stanley talks about the unique qualities of each person's skin, and how far the laboratory-grown skin will retain those characteristics, based on her research interest in 'what determines a cell to do what?' Plastic surgeon George Lamberty explains how this can improve upon the current treatment with skin grafts. The reporter was John Kiddey for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.
In recent years Margaret Stanley is an Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology in the Department of Pathology at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Her main research interest is the pathogenesis of HPV human papillomavirus and she leads a research group focusing on the prevention and treatment of HPV, which causes cervical cancer. She advises the UK government on the HPV vaccine and other aspects of public health, food safety and animal health policies.
George Lamberty was Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital 1982 - 2008 and has published widely-used textbooks and won many awards in his field. He was Consultant Civilian Advisor to the RAF 1989 - 2005.
video made to be inserted during live broadcast of Anglia Television's early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia. The live studio presentation provided context for the video as part of a news story or magazine feature within the programme. About Anglia was not recorded during broadcast, so it is usually just the pre-recorded programme inserts which survive. In the 1980s Anglia Television was broadcasting to a wide area in the East of England including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Suffolk and adjoining parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Rutland where there was some overlap with neighbouring ITV regions.