Searching for the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Tissue Repair - Science in Vancouver

Searching for the ‘Sweet Spot’ of Tissue Repair - Science in Vancouver

Your immune system protects you from infection, but it also helps your body with all kinds of repairs. It performs a wide range of tasks, from helping wounds heal to clearing dead cells after organ damage. “Scar tissue is what happens when things don’t repair well,” says Kelly McNagny, professor of biomedical engineering at the University of British Columbia. “Normal tissue function is what happens when you do repair damaged tissue. We think imm…