Farmers cultivate the toquillales and harvest the stems before separating the fibre from the outer skin.

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Proponents of rigid airships also claim that their babies are more resilient, thanks to the protective outer skin which shields the gas compartments.

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It caused her outer skin layer to deteriorate and burn off, leaving at least 60 percent of her body as an open wound.

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In ablative (wounding) laser resurfacing, a laser beam destroys the outer layer of skin (epidermis) and heats the underlying skin (dermis), which stimulates the growth of new collagen fibers.

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He then wants to take moulded sheets of artificial skin to build up the intermediate layer, the dermis, before adding the outer epithelium graft employing new approaches that lift thin, 20-cell-thick slices from elsewhere on the body.

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