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A fully human system to cultivate skin cells for grafting

Researchers have, for the first time, successfully cultured skin cells from human tissue-proteins to produce skin grafts for safer treatment of severe burns. The new technique could potentially ... read more

Growing Skin Grafts Without Animal Contamination

“Our method of using biologically relevant laminins in their pure forms to develop a fully human cell culture system for growing skin keratinocytes in the laboratory is a first and is likely to ... read more

In Landmark Study, Human Stem Cells Restore Monkeys’ Movement After Spinal Cord Injury

Stem cell ... skin cells from a healthy human donor, converted them into iPSC cells, and embedded these artificial stem cells into a matrix containing growth factors. After grafting into rats with two ... read more

Biologically relevant laminin as chemically defined and fully human platform for human epidermal keratinocyte culture

This method is suitable for assessing graft ... cells (Fig. 1a, c). Taken together, we have demonstrated the ability to culture functional HEKs in a fully human and chemically defined cell culture ... read more

Functional human heart tissue grown from skin cells

It’s been proven to work across species and organ systems; Ott and team have used the method to grow functional rat kidneys and lungs. But this is the first time that anyone has used the procedure on ... read more

How skin begins: New research could improve skin grafts, and more

Thousands of people undergo skin grafts each year to repair burns, birth defects or wounds. Medical advancements, including the advent of stem cell therapy which uses the patient's own skin cells to ... read more

Which spare body parts will stem cells deliver first?

Bone marrow stem cells, for instance, can regenerate an immune system but they cannot regenerate the pancreas or brain tissue. The only source of pluripotent cells was surplus human embryos ... ... read more

Stem cells can help us 'build a human heart in a dish' — but what are they, really?

Stem cells are also offering researchers a way to test new drugs in a human model without risking the lives of volunteers. For example, researchers can grow ... some skin cells taken, stem cells grown ... read more

Lab-Grown Skin Sprouts Hair and Sweats

[Top 3 Techniques for Creating Organs in the Lab] "Our present outcomes indicate a proof of concept of regenerative therapy of [a] fully functional and integrated skin organ system ... with human ... read more

A fully human system to cultivate skin cells for grafting

SINGAPORE, 31 October 2018 - Breakthrough research to culture human skin cells called keratinocytes to produce skin grafts has been published by a team of researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and ... read more

A fully human system to cultivate skin cells for grafting

Breakthrough study to culture human skin cells called keratinocytes to produce skin grafts has been published by a team of researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital ... read more