A team of researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine has found that inhibiting the production of a certain fibroblast in the skin can eliminate scarring—at least in mice. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their study of the factors involved in the creation of scar tissue and how it led to them finding a way of preventing it from happening. Piotr Konieczny and Shruti Naik with New York University School of Medicine have published a Perspectives piece in the same journal issue outlining the work by the team in California.