Rats, I was hoping this was a more general "fix" so that there would not be scarring on internal organs after surgery or other trauma.
No word on flexibility if the resulting tissue. Scars tend to be quite keratinicious and stiff. Still, an esthetic improvement is better than nothing, especially in facial injuries like the example picture.
Interesting thing I've heard in Regeneritive Medicine podcast - burn victim skin stem cells are just too good at their job and render too much skin. Hence someone found process how to slow it and result in better looking skin.
Interesting point that they can already induce hair follicles to form. That would be newsworthy on its own, wouldn't it? (assuming it would work on male pattern baldness)
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 30.0 ms ] threadNo word on flexibility if the resulting tissue. Scars tend to be quite keratinicious and stiff. Still, an esthetic improvement is better than nothing, especially in facial injuries like the example picture.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19168293/
>Topical iodine induces hair growth in and around scars. Hair is regeneration's workhorse, moving purposefully in all directions
Paper: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aai8792
This is somewhat different from earlier lines of research into scarless healing in mammals, such as the work based on the biochemistry of MRL mice ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806350/ ).