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Nature 436, 1079-1080 (25 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/4361079a; Published online 24 August 2005

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Scar prevention:  The healing touch

Meredith Wadman1

  1. Meredith Wadman is a freelance writer based in Washington DC.

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Wound an embryo and it heals perfectly, with no scars. Can we teach adult wounds the same trick, asks Meredith Wadman.

It was alligators that first drew Mark Ferguson to study human scarring, but not for the reasons you might expect. In the late 1970s, he had become fascinated by cleft palate.

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