• Question: What is the one scientific discovery you would like to see?

    Asked by anon-208422 to Stuart on 6 Mar 2019.
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      Stuart Higgins answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      There’s lots of things, but I think it would be amazing if we could work out how to encourage the cells in our body to fully repair us when we get injured. Our cells normally do a good job, but sometimes they get it a bit wrong and form scars (rather than re-growing what used to be there), or inflammation happens (which is where part of the body overreacts and swells up). If we could make our cells repair us fully then it would help a lot of people.

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