For a surgeon, it is skin, tissue, muscle, blood".
Firstly, it brings the different components of skin tissue closer together.
Michelle Hinebrook and Lisa Kellner both make paintings and drawings of magnified skin, tissue and hair follicles.
In Japan, skin tissue was taken from the ear of a 4-month-old cloned bull last April.
It took two weeks to make heart cells from skin tissue, so patients could not be treated soon after suffering an attack, Gepstein said.
In the 1960s he developed a diagnostic method that involved viewing skin tissue at low magnification until he saw a broad pattern, which he called a silhouette.
Using 3D printers, there are ongoing attempts to "bio-print" human bone, skin, tissue and even organs (think kidneys and livers).
"In the case of a cut-off finger, the curve shape changes rapidly as a result of the skin tissue dying off".
They will appear in court next Wednesday, when the results of DNA tests on skin tissue found under the victim's fingernails could be made public.
Scientists have turned skin tissue from heart attack patients into fresh, beating heart cells in a first step towards a new therapy for the condition.
There doesn't seem to be any risk of frostbite, in which the lack of warm blood leads to skin tissue freezing and rupturing.
