Regeneration Balance 2D: Cells, Vessels & Scarring Timeline

This is the 2D companion to the 3D Regeneration Balance simulator: the same graft model — a stem-cell-seeded scaffold whose fate is decided by vascularization, scaffold integrity, fibrosis and tissue integration — rendered as a top-down graft cross-section instead of an orbiting 3D scene. Seeded cells sit on a disc at the wound site; a vessel network grows in from the edge as VEGF angiogenic signal drives new blood-vessel formation, and immune-cell dots orbiting the site shift from healing green to inflammatory red as fibrosis builds. Underneath, a scrolling strip chart plots vascularization, fibrosis and tissue integration directly against simulated weeks, so the balancing act — and the moment scarring overtakes regeneration, or the scaffold collapses before real tissue can replace it — is something you read off a curve instead of a rotating camera.