HONOLULU – Too much of the wrong type of skin bacteria may keep diabetics from healing, new research suggests.
People with diabetes have a notoriously hard time healing from skin wounds. New research on diabetic mice suggests that bacteria normally present on healthy skin may play a role in wound healing, says Elizabeth Grice, a researcher at the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Md.
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