The medical science is growing and improving every day. Thousands of researchers around the world are working day and night to make our life better. How much the medical science has improved that we can see for ourselves by looking at the decreased mortality rates around the world and the betterment in the medication for any kind of disease. Again, one such milestone was achieved by the medical science which can improve the lives of the burn victims.

Researchers have developed a novel method that measures the limit to which human skin can be stretched, an advance that could help grow new skin for burn victims.

Guy German, an assistant professor at Binghamton University in the US described that how this works. He said, “Surgeons use various techniques for tissue expansion procedures designed to grow skin in one region of the body to graft it on to another site (sometimes used for burn victims).  This procedure stretches the skin, typically, by inflating a balloon with air or silicone under the surface.”

“Skin grows more in regions where it is stretched – during pregnancy, for instance – but stretch it too much and tissue might break,” German said. The new predictive technique could be employed as a method of predicting the limit to which the skin could be stretched. The outermost layer of skin regulates water loss from the body and protects underlying living tissue from germs and the environment, in general. It protects the body from extreme temperature, rough surfaces, and most paper edges. The results could help create new topical medical and cosmetic products.