Welcome to our blog! This blog is updated by Shaun Ng (Year 1 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), Janis Lim (Year 1 Biological Sciences), Chua Theng Xuan (Year 1 Biological Sciences) and Cerise Lim (Year 1 Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering).

Skins as one can tell from the name is the largest organ of the human body which protects our organ from infection and foreign substances. Due to this function skin serves as an important part of our body and a major loss of skin due to accidents such as burns can lead to serious consequences to the person. This is due to the fact that the loss of skin makes the person more prone to infection and such the person with skin injury may die from such complications. Currently, hospitals are resorting to taking skin from cadavers to treat patients with serious skin injury (mainly burns). However, such method faces the possibility of rejection and the cadavers’ skin that is pasted on the burn patient have to be removed to prevent further complications.

In essence, such a method only prevents the burn from getting worse in the short term, which is to prevent the burnt patient from infection. As such, researches have been ongoing to find for methods to be able to produce bioavailable and currently, 3D printed skin poses a promising lead. But, 3D printed skin also has its drawbacks such as the time taken to print the skin can take up to hours or days, which is not favorable in the commercial sense. As such, our group Making and Tinkering (MnT) aims to develop a cell layering machine, that aims to address the constraints that 3D printing of skin posed. So sit tight, as we take you on our MnT journey in prototyping this Cell Layering Machine

The Crew

The crew behind this team consist of 4 members each from various backgrounds and experiences in life. A short summary of each team member are as summarized below.

Cerise

 

Janis

 

Shaun

 

Theng Xuan