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Doctors test spray-on skin for burn victims

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EAST TEXAS (KYTX) -- There's a new kind of treatment for burn victims: spray-on skin.

Texas doctors are testing a new product called 'Recell.' 

Surgeons take this sterile kit into the operating room and harvest a tiny piece of skin, less than an inch square. 

Doctors then combine the patient's skin with an enzyme solution and then spray it back on to the treated burn site.   

The skin cells grow together and cover up the whole surface. 

"I think it is revolutionary," burn and trauma surgeon Dr. Booker King said. "I think it has a lot of applications not only to burns but also any type of soft tissue or open wound coverage."

About a dozen patients are involved in this study. If all goes well, the spray-on skin product could win FDA approval and be on the market in a couple of years.

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