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18 Mar 2025New study

Wound Healing & Tissue Repair Ion Channels & Excitability

Wounded skin and gut-lining cells pass electrical signals for hours

UMass Amherst researchers report that injured epithelial cells, which form the skin and the lining of the intestine, generate electrical signals that spread across dozens of neighbouring cells and persist for hours.

The Conversation (via Ocean State Media)Significant

30 Nov 2023New study

Synthetic Morphology & Biobots Wound Healing & Tissue Repair

Human airway cells self-assemble into "anthrobots" that help neurons regrow

Clusters grown from adult human tracheal cells formed motile, cilia-driven constructs, and in a dish, groups of them encouraged neurons to grow across a scratched area.

Advanced ScienceSignificant

26 Jan 2022Landmark

Morphogenesis & Regeneration Wound Healing & Tissue Repair

Adult frogs regrow functional legs after a 24-hour drug treatment

A wearable silicone bioreactor delivering a five-drug cocktail to amputation sites for one day triggered 18 months of leg regrowth in adult African clawed frogs, which normally cannot regenerate limbs.

Science AdvancesMajor