A leading cosmetic brand launched in research to produce human skin with 3D printers

ByJohn Abella

A cosmetic company headquartered in FranceL'Oréal (L'Oreal)Has started research and development for 3D printing of human skin.

L'Oreal's Plan to Start 3D Printing Human Skin - Bloomberg Business
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-18/l-oreal-s-plan-to-start-3d-printing-human-skin

Organovo - L'Oreal USA Announces Research Partnership with Organovo to Develop 3 - D Bioprinted Skin Tissue
http://ir.organovo.com/news/press-releases/press-releases-details/2015/LOreal-USA-Announces-Research-Partnership-with-Organovo-to-Develop-3-D-Bioprinted-Skin-Tissue/

Cosmetic company L'Oreal is a technology company with 3,800 scientists in 50 countries, targeting R & D for more than 3.7% of revenue, one billion dollars (about 120 billion yen) in one year I have one side. L'Oreal started biotechnology startup at the beginning of MayOrganovoWe announced a partnership with the company and it turned out that we were beginning to undertake 3D printing of human skin.

ByNational Eye Institute

In order to ascertain the safety of cosmetics it is necessary to use it against "living skin" and see the reaction. L'Oreal started artificial skin formation to avoid animal experiments from the 1980s, but in order to actually live skin it required technology and time.

Not only in L'Oreal but also in FranceLionHowever, he is doing artificial skin research at a huge facility and it is said that it generates skin samples of more than 100,000 pieces a year, if it is bigger, 5 square meters a year. These skin is roughly 5 mm square by one, and when it becomes thick it will be about 1 mm thick.


So, how to produce the skin so far is asked to donate tissue pieces of the surgical patient from the medical facility first, slice finely to the cell level, and then produce organisms that occur on human skin While exposing it to academic signals, it was to grow them in a tray with their own bait. We will create an environment as close to the actual skin as possible and grow small pieces of tissue up to skin samples in about a week.

This time L'Oreal and Organovo have joined hands, and after five years it will be possible to automate the generation of skin manually and to do it fast. Organovo is already a German pharmaceutical manufacturer ·MerckAs we have successfully 3D-printing the liver and kidney tissues, we are establishing a technique for 3D printing of living skin using experts belonging to L'Oreal and Organovo's know-how It is seen.