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Skin can 'pre-learn': Priming cells for regeneration before injury

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Skin can 'pre-learn': Priming cells for regeneration before injury
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It is well known that students who prepare in advance perform better in exams. Now, it appears that the skin can do the same. Rather than scrambling to repair itself only after injury occurs, a Korean research team has demonstrated that preconditioning a subset of skin cells into a "ready state" enables the tissue to initiate rapid and effective healing immediately upon injury.

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