Sentences with phrase «understanding human skin cells»

A breakthrough in understanding human skin cells offers a pathway for new anti-ageing treatments.

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Similarly, the three research teams that last week reported turning mouse skin cells into embryolike cells say they will have to study embryonic cells to learn how to reprogram human cells in the same way and to understand their potential.

For example, he says, researchers studying infertility have grafted human testis and ovary cells under the skin of animals in an effort to better understand their development.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

We are improving how we reprogram human skin cells into heart cells, and are investigating the most rapidly evolving areas of the human genome to better understand human disease and evolution.

Gage and Ghosh discuss how human skin cells induced to return to an immature state («induced pluripotent stem cells» or IPS cells) are revolutionizing our understanding and treatment of mental and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, as well as leading to new models of drug development for all diseases.