What a Sea Cucumber Knows About #WoundHealing That We Don’t: Jobson et al. on Natural #TissueImmortality

Amputated tissue from the sea cucumber Psolus fabricii healed its own wounds and kept living in plain, non-sterile seawater for more than three years. Jobson et al. in Science Advances on "natural tissue immortality" — and why a wound-healing surgeon can't look away.

Control-Alt-Delete: Rebooting the Chronic Wound #ActAgainstAmputation #DFU #WoundHealing @ALPSLimb @KeckSchool_USC @USC_Vascular

Chronic wounds are biological computers stuck in a boot loop. Sharp debridement is Control-Alt-Delete — the histological reboot that converts a chronic wound back into an acute one. Only then can you run the apps.

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