what’s to stop the body from going completely rogue during healing? Couldn’t it just make the completely wrong cells for a scratch or something?
In: Biology
Yes, it could.
For a scratch, that’s scarring. Almost skin, but not. If it makes entirely the wrong cells, cells that don’t have the structural strength of skin, then the wound fails to heal.
Other damage, such as due to exposure to certain chemicals or to radiation? That’s cancer.
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