Dr. John F. Burke, Dies at 89; Created Synthetic Skin

Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 18:20 in Health & Medicine

Dr. Burke helped develop the first commercially-reproducible, synthetic human skin, saving the lives of innumerable severely burned people worldwide.

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