More than One Way to Skin a Wound

Large cutaneous and non-healing ulcers exhibit impaired epithelialization, which represents a major therapeutic challenge. Recently in Nature, Kurita et al. (2018) reported a surprising potential source of epithelial cells. The authors demonstrate that wound-resident mesenchymal cells can be reprogrammed to generate expandable epithelial tissues and facilitate wound closure.

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