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'Growing' Skin Technology Eases Recovery for Burn Victims.

By Jessie Halladay, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 25--CINCINNATI--Biotechnologist Chris Lloyd carefully lifts the round petri dishes and gingerly carries them to a refrigerator-like incubator.

Suspended in a pinkish fluid is a small s...uare of nearly translucent material that is mostly collagen. That s...uare will develop into a thin patch of skin created to cover the severe burns of 7-year-old DaJa Brown. DaJa was burned over 72 percent of her body during a July 2 house fire in her Newport News home.

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