See short video:

http://mashable.com/2016/11/29/skingun/#E83TWOtke5qL

I recently came across this video on facebook and was quite amazed. The video highlights a new treatment being used by burn victims to help them grow new skin where theirs has been badly burned. The treatment involves a gun type apparatus called the SkinGun that sprays stem cells of the burn victim directly onto their wound. The stem cells can help the body regenerate new skin on the wounded area without leaving visible scars behind in the healing process. The SkinGun has yet to be approved for commercial use in the US, but hopefully will be soon. If I were to experience a severe burn on part of my body such as my arms or legs, I would definitely consider using the SkinGun as a treatment. One of the reasons I would be so eager to try this treatment is because it would use my own stem cells to help regenerate my burned skin. Having someone else’s tissue or cells used in this type of treatment can sometimes result in the tissue or cells being recognized by your body as foreign and therefore be rejected. By using a victim’s own cells, this type of rejection is very unlikely to occur. In addition, this method may be a great alternative to skin graft transplantation where a patch of skin from some other part of the body is taken to help repair the burned area.  The SkinGun would not require excision of any large patches of skin on the victim’s body to heal the burn, only iPS cells!