It is important because identifying skin stem cells and learning about ... At the donor site, the replacement epidermis comes from remnants of hair follicles and gland epithelium in the dermis.

Now, Karl Koehler at Boston Children’s Hospital, United States, and his colleagues, have managed to generate skin organoids by directing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in a ...

Whether you’ve been diagnosed with androgenetic alopecia or another form of hair loss, we’re guessing you already know this and are curious if stem cell therapies might be your pathway to new ...

Hair loss and baldness is a universal ailment affecting many which in turn has created an ever growing need to advance hair ...

While skin cultures are not a new concept, previous models have lacked vital characteristics necessary for the accurate modeling of normal skin conditions – such as fat and nerve cells, hair follicles ...

Research Interests: Somatic Stem Cells and Aging, Genetic Mechanisms of Stem Cell Maintenance, Therapeutic Approaches to Tissue Rejuvenation, Mouse Models of Hair Graying, Melanocyte Stem Cells and ...

But only some of the stem cells that will ultimately patch her up are normally dedicated to replenishing the epidermis that ...

In experiments on mice, stem cells that control skin and hair colour became damaged after intense stress. In a chance finding, dark-furred mice turned completely white within weeks. The US and ...