Regulation of the Wound Healing Response during Aging.

An effective healing response is critical to promote and ensure healthy aging. Major discoveries in both fields-repair and aging-have led to a better understanding of the mechanisms regulating the healing response and of the complexity of the aging process. It will now be important to translate and connect those findings to improve our insights into the decline of regeneration in the elderly. Furthermore, we need to understand how this process can be stalled to maintain and promote tissue resilience. Furthermore, it remains to be explored how the findings in model organisms are conserved in human wounds and how these findings might be translated into the clinic.