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Study reveals new way to fully regenerate the scarred skin

Could wounded skin someday regrow perfectly without scars?

23 Mar 2026

AI-driven OCT imaging system enables precise wound healing assessment

No matter the size or severity, wounds on human skin are difficult to monitor while they heal. Biopsies disrupt the wound site and are too invasive for routine, repeated monitoring, and most medical imaging devices that could do the job are large, expensive and booked up with more pressing diagnostics.

23 Mar 2026

New wound dressing targets infections while reducing antibiotic overuse

Biomedical engineers from Brown University have developed a new wound dressing material that releases antibiotic drugs only when harmful bacteria are present in a wound.

19 Mar 2026

Novel microneedle patch accelerates healing of chronic diabetic wounds using light

Researchers from Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Southeast University, and Wenzhou Medical University have developed a novel microneedle patch that combines MXene hydrogel with nitric oxide (NO) and hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) plasmid for enhanced diabetic wound treatment.

10 Mar 2026

TREM2 helps macrophages survive and repair radiation damaged skin

Recently, teams led by Prof. Yiming Zhang from Xinqiao Hospital, Army Medical University,Prof. Fazhi Qi from Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, and Prof. Junli Zhou from the Tenth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University (Dongguan People's Hospital), focused on the regulatory mechanisms of macrophage function in radiation-induced skin injury and systematically elucidated the critical role of TREM2 in maintaining macrophage survival and promoting skin repair under radiation stress.

6 Mar 2026

No evidence probiotic skincare can improve mood

Current findings reveal no support for emotional benefits from probiotic cosmetics, highlighting the need for further investigation into neurocosmetics.

5 Mar 2026

Satellite livers could provide booster function for patients awaiting transplants

More than 10,000 Americans who suffer from chronic liver disease are on a waitlist for a liver transplant, but there are not enough donated organs for all of those patients.

4 Mar 2026

Electrohydrodynamic bioprinting creates living muscle tissues with tightly aligned cells inside

Building functional human muscle in the laboratory has long been a goal of regenerative medicine, but one stubborn obstacle remains: real muscle is not just a mass of cells.

2 Mar 2026

NLRP3 inflammasome plays dual, time-dependent roles during acute wound healing

Wound healing is a multistep biological process involving inflammation, tissue formation, and remodeling.

2 Mar 2026

How zinc deficiency could worsen heart inflammation and what that means for patients

This review examines how zinc regulates inflammatory and redox signaling pathways involved in myocarditis and pericarditis, highlighting mechanisms such as NF-κB inhibition and the redox zinc switch. The authors conclude that maintaining optimal zinc status may support cardiovascular resilience, while emphasizing that clinical translation requires further targeted trials.

1 Mar 2026

Study maps how NF-κB regulates gene expression in cells

To further the quantitative understanding of cellular decision making, Dr. Gregory Reeves and his team in the chemical engineering department have worked to interpret how a transcription factor dictates the alteration of gene expression in cells.

27 Feb 2026

SolasCure completes Phase II clinical trial, demonstrating accelerated healing with Aurase Wound Gel

SOLASCURE Ltd (SolasCure), a biotechnology company developing a novel treatment to transform chronic wound healing, today announced the successful completion of its second Phase II clinical trial, CLEANVLU2. The study demonstrated that its investigational product, Aurase Wound Gel (AWG), heals chronic wounds at a faster rate than current standard of care, providing clinical validation of its ability to deliver continuous enzymatic debridement while simultaneously activating wound healing.

24 Feb 2026

Developmental ANGPTL4 deficiency protects mice from colitis and tumors

A novel study using a mouse model has found that the absence of the angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) protein during development triggers a long-lasting reprogramming of the immune system that protects against intestinal inflammation.

18 Feb 2026

Polygenic analysis provides new insight into hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome

Hypermobile Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (hEDS) is one of the most common heritable connective tissue disorders.

10 Feb 2026

Study reveals how two key proteins contribute to abnormal bone growth after injury

After serious injuries, burns, fractures, or major surgeries, the body normally repairs damaged tissues and restores movement.

9 Feb 2026

Bioadhesive patches target remaining glioblastoma cells after surgery

Glioblastoma is the most prevalent and aggressive brain tumor. It proliferates very rapidly, is highly invasive, and there is currently no treatment capable of halting its progression or curing it, which means life expectancy after diagnosis is very short.

6 Feb 2026

Burn injuries may have driven key human evolutionary traits

Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new research.

4 Feb 2026

Cells can generate negative viscosity to propel movement

The cells in our bodies move in groups during biological processes such as wound healing and tissue development - but because of resistance, or viscosity, those cells can't just neatly glide past each other.

31 Jan 2026

Facial wound secrets revealed for scarless repair

Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or trauma, Stanford Medicine researchers have found.

22 Jan 2026

Study shows DHPS enzyme controls macrophage maturation across multiple organs

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, its Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that an enzyme involved in protein translation is essential for circulating immune cells, called monocytes, to mature into tissue-resident macrophages, a specialized population of immune cells that maintain organ health by clearing dead cells and debris.

21 Jan 2026