CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have engineered an enzyme that can gobble up scar tissue formed after spinal cord injuries in rats, overcoming a key hurdle to getting injured nerves to reconnect ...

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Forward-looking: Swedish scientists are pushing regenerative medicine closer to a breakthrough that could one day allow doctors to rebuild living skin, complete with blood vessels. Building on years ...

The National Cancer Institute Dictionary of Cancer Terms describes scare tissue in the following manner. “Fibrous tissue that forms when normal tissue is destroyed by disease, injury, or surgery. For ...