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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

Medical research: A fully human cell culture for skin grafting

A fully human cell culture method to produce tissue for skin grafting has been developed. The study, published today in Nature Communications, suggests that this system could be used to provide safer ... 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

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 ... geneti... read more

Building Better Mice for Cancer Drug Discovery and Development

“These complex humanized models have disadvantages as well, including the cost and availability of the animals, the duration of the engraftment, the onset of graft ... cells for the development of a p... read more

Deciphering diabetes with "game-changing" human blood vessels from stem cells

Despite its prevalence, very little is known about the vascular changes arising from diabetes - in part because we lack human model systems that fully ... cells in a dish, but also to grow a ... read more

The endocannabinoid system: Here’s how it keeps the body healthy and happy

Both endocannabinoids from the body, and the cannabinoids from the cannabis plant activate cell receptors that ... a 2009 study shows the endocannabinoid system is fully operational before leaving ... read more

Leprosy Reborn: How a Long-maligned Disease Might Unlock the Secrets of Stem Cells

The end result is to turn a fully mature cell back into something resembling a stem cell, with all the metamorphic powers that entails. The human equivalent ... in our skin every time we get a cut or ... 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

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

5 Tech Predictions for 2019: Entering the Decade of Disruption

If it happens, it will be by very human humans using very human-controlled systems ... own cells. A scaffold will be 3D-printed with a dissolvable structure. Skin cells from the recipient are converte... 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