Grow-your-own facelift: your skin-cells are grown in vitro and then injected into your face for a healthy, biotech glow.
Isolagen claims that the implanted cells grow in the same way as ordinary skin cells and that, unlike collagen fillers or the nerve-paralysing toxin Botox, the effect does not wear off. In fact, it claims, the effects get better over time. If so, it may be the closest anyone has come to achieving true skin regeneration.
"I'm very excited about it. I see the results with my own eyes," says Peter Ashby, a plastic surgeon in London, UK, who adds that he has no financial ties to the company. If the success of Botox is anything to go by, Isolagen has a hit on its hands. Botox sales totalled $440 million in 2002.
(via Die Puny Humans)
