(Phys.org)—Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have published a paper in the journal PLOS ONE highlighting their study comparing the rate of cell apoptosis between humans, chimps and macaque. Their finding ...
Our healthy skin is a mosaic of both normal and mutation-bearing cells. As we age, a growing number of cells accumulate more mutations including those that can cause cancer. Eventually these mutant cells fueled by environmental ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 22, 2023
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Scientists recently reconstructed the skin of endangered green turtles, marking the first time that skin of a non-mammal was successfully engineered in a laboratory, according to a recently published U.S. Geological Survey ...
Ecology
Jun 27, 2017
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Scientists are reporting development and successful lab tests on the first potential drug to pack a lethal one-two punch against melanoma skin cancer cells. Hit number one destroys cells in the main tumor, and the second ...
Biochemistry
Jun 5, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers has made a major advance toward producing induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, that are safe enough to use in treating diseases in patients.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 8, 2009
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A new hand-held device that uses lasers and sound waves may change the way doctors treat and diagnose melanoma, according to a team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis. The instrument, described in a paper ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 6, 2014
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Skin acts as the first line of defense against pathogens and other harmful material from outside the body. Yet this barrier also excludes some beneficial drugs that could treat skin diseases. Now, researchers have taken the ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 26, 2018
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Researchers have shown for the first time in an animal that is more closely related to humans that it is possible to make new bone from stem-cell-like induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) made from an individual animal's ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 15, 2014
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The DNA contained within each of our cells is exactly the same, yet different types of cells - skin cells, heart cells, brain cells - perform very different functions. The ultimate fate of these cells is encoded not just ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 6, 2010
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