by Hannah Thomasy, PhD – The Scientist –
Yejing Ge explores the behavior of skin-resident stem cells in wound repair, cancer, and aging.
In 1986, Harold Dvorak, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School, popularized the idea of cancer as a wound that does not heal. In the following decades, many research groups drew intriguing parallels between processes involved in wound repair and cancer, including changes in the extracellular matrix, cell proliferation, and immune responses.
