A microscope image of a human egg contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University) WASHINGTON — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create ...

Could wounded skin someday regrow perfectly without scars? A new study by Harvard stem cell biologists published in Cell ...

Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients run low. The key lies in serine, an amino acid that activates a stress ...

Early lab work shows reprogrammed skin cells can yield embryos, hinting at future infertility solutions but raising safety questions that demand more study. Infertility affects millions of people ...

In a new study, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence have unveiled a technique for creating lifelike robotic skin ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries ...

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, have existed in the human body as a seeming paradox, causing inflammation ...