In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...
Skin stem cells are multipotent adult stem cells present in the adult skin, which can self-renew and differentiate into different cell lineages of the skin. Skin stem cells are active ...
These tiny bumps or pimples are dead skin cells plugging hair follicles. Keratosis pilaris can worsen in the winter months when the skin tends to dry out and may also worsen during pregnancy.
Normally, your body sheds about 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells each day and replaces them with new ones. You don't feel the skin cells growing and shouldn't see them falling, or flaking off.
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Converting one type of cell to another — for example, a skin cell to a neuron — can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a “pluripotent ...
A new technique developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helps convert skin cells into neurons without needing ...