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Mystery #2Tier 2cells / healing

Why do cuts heal?

Scrape your knee and within a week or two the wound has closed up, often leaving skin as good as new. Your body repaired itself, with no glue and no stitches needed. How does a body mend its own damage?

A clean white adhesive dressing being smoothed onto the heel of a foot.
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