In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

One of the most amazing things to happen in biology in the last couple of years is cellular reprogramming. We learned how to ...

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem ...

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 during skin ...