Fran Fernández’s life changed completely on a summer day seven years ago in Algeciras, southern Spain. On 5 August 2017, he was hit by an explosion that burned 75% of his skin. When he arrived at the hospital, Fran was given no more than 48 hours to live, but today he has recovered thanks to more than a dozen operations and several grafts of both his own and artificial skin. The Spanish Medicines Agency has approved using artificial human skin, or cultured skin, for therapy at Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville in June. It is the first facility in Spain to apply the advanced therapy dubbed “…