Scientists
gathered skin samples from 50 acne patients with varying degrees of acne (mild, moderate, and severe), and compared them with 40 controls who were matched for age and sex.
Hsiao and colleagues carefully
gathered skin samples from donors, and then grew the skin cells in culture before converting them into iPS cells using the methods created by Yamanaka.
Not exact matches
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from
skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.
They also
gathered sloughed - off
skin samples for genetic testing.
The study drew upon the Southwest Fisheries Science Center's collection of
skin tissue
samples gathered from dolphins inadvertently entangled in gillnets off Southern California from 1991 to 2008, highlighting the value of that collection over time.
Dr. King, lead author Mogher Khamaisi, Ph.D., and their colleagues looked at wound healing using fibroblasts from
skin samples gathered from 26 members of the Joslin Medalist cohort (which is made up of people who have lived with type 1 diabetes for many years) with a median age of 79.