Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...

Textbooks usually depict the epithelial cells encasing the interior and exterior of your body as passive barriers. But ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced ...

About 20 years ago, scientists discovered that skin cells could be converted into pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries ...

In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka made a groundbreaking discovery that would win him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine just ...

In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...

A new process for converting skin cells to neurons directly could make it easier to develop therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.

MIT researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord ...

Converting one type of cell to another - for example, a skin cell to a neuron - can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...

A new technique developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helps convert skin cells into neurons without needing ...

Brain organoids, three-dimensional models of the brain, are a boon to neuroscience, making it possible to study the ...