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New hair from healing wounds

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In mammals, most wounds heal by repair, not regeneration. It now seems that, as they heal, open skin wounds in adult mice form new hair follicles that follow similar developmental paths to those of embryos.

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Figure 1: Formation of new hair in a healed wound.

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  1. Cheng-Ming Chuong is in the Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA. chuong@pathfinder.usc.edu,

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