Top College News Subscribe to the Newsletter  Professor helps
develop skin cells  Published: Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Updated: Friday, May 17, 2013 13:05  Skin cells  Special to The
Prospector  Thomas Boland, professor of metallurgical and
materials engineering, worked with several Texas health
institutions to help develop new ways to grow skin cells.  For
the last 10 years, Thomas Boland, professor of metallurgical and
materials engineering,  has been collaborating with several 
Texas health institutions to help develop new ways to grow skin
cells for burn victims and those with foot ulcers due to
diabetes.  The project's goal, Boland said, is to re-grow
tissues outside of the body for implantation, which means donors
or skin graphing is not required for this new treatment.  "What
we do is we make the scaffold at the same time as we add the
cells so we have cells embedded very deep inside this matrix
just like it would be on your regular skin, and we add channels
in there, which later develop into a vasc