Sentences with phrase «human skin cells back»

Not exact matches

It is possible to force human skin cells to turn back into embryonic stem cells in the lab, but this doesn't seem to be something we are able to achieve without intervention.

Rather than reversing cells all the way back to a stem cell state before prompting them to turn into something else, such as in the case of iPS cells, the researchers «rewind» skin cells just enough to instruct them to form the more than 200 cell types that constitute the human body.