Increasing their complexity by adding hair follicles would give us even more information about how skin interacts with topical products,” said Carolina Catarino, Ph.D., first author of the study, who earned her doctorate at Rensselaer and is now a researcher developing new skin testing methods at Grupo Boticário, a cosmetics company in her home country of Brazil. This team has already successfully printed skin with working blood vessels, and this latest research is an exciting next step in developing and testing better treatments for burns and other skin conditions,” said Deepak Vashishth, Ph.D., director of the Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.