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Hi Panos Do you have a link for this> Info from JHU from the fb page. "The dextran hydrogel for wound healing is to enter large animal trials this summer. If the trials are successful – we will ...

@seabs135 - I really hope you are right! I respect everyone's views, and like your contributions to the debate! @golfpanther - thanks for your detailed response! It's great to have you people to talk...

@lapis lazuli - I see.... - did you email any of the others Sun/Harmon? @seabs135 - I appreciate your enthusiasm - but this really is the crux of the matter - ie. how the skin might look in its every...

Hi all - it is a bit disappointing how the hydrogel research has 'moved' Could these 3 questions be answered by some scientist who has worked on the project: [1] When they say the skin has 'complete...

@skinregenerator - 'He {Dr Sun] is no long in JHU...' True - but from what I read he was interested in setting up his own company and pursuing hydrogel research for skin regeneration - but now I'm wo...

hi @wentworthwhile - I think you're right - breakoutlabs wouldn't fund something carried out at JH - but I was under the impression that Dr Guoming Sun was going to pursue research independently - am ...

thought this might interest some - just shows scientists are working towards some pretty radical things...

@Maldition you're opinion is as valid as anyone elses - and you're welcome to it - but if the hydrogel does what we want it to do in larger animal/human skin and it's just the bureaucratic process h...

wow - how great all this is happening! As regards media - if Dr Harmon does go through with this of course contact magazines/sites that this would directly apply to - but also I would contact big pu...

In August it will be 2 years since they made the initial discovery :/ Part of me is encouraged by all the recent updates - part of me not... Good points - they have applied to the Government for f...

@maldition are you saying forget about the hydrogel? That scientists at John Hopkins [rated the 5th best university in the world for Pre-clinical and Health studies by the Times of London, ] have c...

@mars123, there are actually several medically focused crowdfunding sites. Off the top of my head I know there is petridish.org. I had found two or three others earlier and posted them on this messa...

I found this interesting article about crowdfunding and medical projects: It seems that CureLauncher is the only site for crowdfunding medical projects at the moment and is quite new itself new [...

Thought this might interest some of you: It's about the army's funding of medical research: it says that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has a 2 billion a year budget - and what I t...

@scars4life - I just noticed that you joined here in 2009 and choose the username 'Scars4life' - I think it's cool that you are skeptical - and it's everyone's right to say anything they want - but am...

@scars4life - I just noticed that you joined here in 2009 and choose the username 'Scars4life' - I think it's cool that you are skeptical - and it's everyone's right to say anything they want - but am...

It's worth revisiting this article from hopkinsmedicine.org when talking about funding: In the article, dated July 2012 it states ''Sharon Gerecht is one example. An assistant professor of ch...

Thanks @chuckstonchew! It's back to waiting for their news then - and hoping all moves as fast as it can mars

@scarminator - my comment was more just commenting on the debate in general and I think it's good you are skeptical and that we can have healthy debate on here - it's interesting what others find - an...

Thanks @chuckstonchew! Both for the quick response - and for getting in contact with these people in the first place! Much appreciated That the JH scientists stated 'completely regenerated with a...

thanks @vladislav - it' true! if it was 1982 we'd definitely be stuck with scars for life - at least this generation has a good chance for change! RE: the texture/color debate - I can't remember who...

re: the African spiny mice If you are looking at the photos you must read the description directly under too! as they are very telling - picture A is the type of mouse being used C - is imme...

Hi 2000 - I'm sure, like seabs135 said that no growth factors were added - here is the original paper: and it is specifically mentioned in articles about this paper in dec 2011 that the scientis...

Hmm, I have to say I'm disappointed that the army haven't got back on this (yet) I'm still optimistic about the promise of the hydrogel, it's just annoying to know that whether the army say yes or n...

@chuckstonchew - agreed! it's a bit sad when you grow up and learn that while there are lots of great and good and productive people in the world everyone is not exactly Clark Kent... what makes th...