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Maria Korcsmaros has a visible scar on her arm from a shark attack that occurred on May 29, 2016. New research has found a way to heal wounds without leaving scar tissue behind. (Source: Tribune News Service) Photo credit: Tribune News Service

Science Weekly: Regenerating skin, not making scars

Kellie Plumhof January 10, 2017

Researchers have now found a way to heal wounds so that they don't become scars. The research first began at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania but grew and expanded...

Graphic by Maddy VanOrman Photo credit: Maddy Van Orman

Skin cells turned into cancer hunters

Kellie Plumhof March 2, 2016

The world of medical science broke into new territory this week as researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Lineberger Comprehensive Care Center turned skin cells into...

Science Weekly : Skin cells reprogrammed into brain cells

October 25, 2014

Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri have found a way to battle the degenerative Huntington's disease. Huntington's disease is a disorder in which nerve cells in certain parts of...

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