First in a three series Kyodo News Professor Hisashi Aoyama is certain of the future of cultured skin.
His certainty was instilled by a a 27-year-old patient who suffered burns all over her body in August, when a fire razed her company dormitory in Gifu Prefecture.
Aoyama, a professor at Aichi Medical University who has been treating burn victims for about 30 years, said skin transplantation was the only way the woman, a native of Thailand, could be saved.