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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

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 Cell Therapy As Autism Treatment

Other stem cells control bodily tissues and can be found anywhere in the body such as fat, skin, teeth ... enzyme and hormone production systems, and more. Stem cells used for autism is not fully unde... read more

20 Americans Die Each Day Waiting for Organs. Can Pigs Save Them?

Alas, in terms of our immune systems, pigs and humans are very different ... regulators to prepare for clinical trials with humans. The first pig-to-human skin graft using live cells is set to take pl... 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

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

Stem cells show potential for treating rare skin disease

These iPS cells can be coaxed to grow into large quantities ... back of a strain of mice with a weak immune system that would not reject the cells from a different species, the keratinocytes grew into ... read more

How long until we can print human faces in the lab?

Not a graft ... systems designed to mimic the environment in the body may go some way to addressing this. Production techniques are also rarely fully standardised. Cells for transplantation need to be ... read more

Researchers engineer therapeutic skin grafts for diabetic mice

Human skin is one of the easiest and cheapest tissues to grow from stem cells in the laboratory. Artificial skin has been used to treat burn patients since the 1970s, but as the system has matured ... ... read more

In major breakthrough, tiny Utah firm regenerates skin, hair in pigs

Epicel, a skin graft widely used in burn units that is sold by Cambridge, Mass.-based Vericel Corp., does not result in fully thick ... effectiveness in human trials. PolarityTE expects to begin a hum... 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 g... read more

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 replac... read more