It turns out the secrets of science aren’t always on the tip of your nose.

At Organogenesis, a Canton-based tissue regeneration firm, the company’s signature product, Apligraf, is derived from the cells of foreskins donated by the mothers of newborn baby boys. A single donor can eventually generate up to two football fields’ worth of Apligraf, according to Dario Eklund, the company’s VP of bioengineering and bioaesthetics.

That’s because the newborn donors’ cells are “so young, so robust, so full of life, that they can divide and build cell banks,” Eklund explains.