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"Skin gun" sprays stems cells onto burn wounds: When treating a burn victim, it can take weeks to generate an autologous skin graft when it's needed to treat the affected areas. However, a team of researchers at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine developed a new treatment that can reduce this time to just a few days. The researchers harvest healthy skin from the patient and use a "skin gun" to spray the patient's own skin stem cells onto the wound.