Silk Gel Recruits Specific Cell Populations for Scarless Skin Regeneration

    March 2021 in “ Applied Materials Today
    Renjie Liang, Xilin Shen, Chang Xie … Hongwei Ouyang
    Studysummary This study found that silk fibroin gel induced more pro-regenerative macrophages and hair follicle stem cells, leading to almost scarless skin regeneration compared to alginate gel.
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