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Study suggests healing skin without scarring may be possible

Researchers unblock embryonic regrowth mechanism that shuts down after birth in mice

Kermit Pattison

Harvard Staff Writer 

March 24, 2026 5 min read

Hannah Tam (left) and Ya-Chieh Hsu.

Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer

New findings by Harvard stem cell biologists suggest...