Skin Organoids for Disease Modeling, Drug Screening, and Regenerative Medicine: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

    January 2026 in “ Wound Repair and Regeneration ”
    D. G. Wang, Manzoor Majid, Jiani Chen … Feng Ni
    Studysummary This review summarizes the latest progress and challenges in skin organoid research, emphasizing advancements in organoid construction, applications in disease modeling, and factors affecting tissue maturation, while noting barriers such as vascularization and neural integration that hinder clinical translation.
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