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“We are working on other epithelial organs as well to find out (whether) similar competition may underlie long-term tissue maintenance as well as organ aging,” she said." Wonder if this will be benificial to live-expectancy in the long run.



Yeah, this sounds more like a starting point to general regeneration than just looking youthful:

> “Application of these drugs to full-thickness skin wounds significantly promoted wound repair,” the study said.

I guess scars might be a thing of the past in a generation or two as well.




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