Post by Lone Wanderer on Jan 5, 2018 9:50:24 GMT
Scientists May Have Discovered a Cure for Baldness
Source: Researchers Use Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells to Grow Hairy Skin
A process using pluripotent stem cells from mice can generate skin tissue complete with hair follicles, according to a team of researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine. The research is published in the journal Cell Reports.
Dr. Koehler and co-authors describe a defined in vitro 3D culture system that generates skin organoids from mouse pluripotent stem cells. The skin organoids contain self-organized skin layers and skin appendages, including hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and adipocytes.
Indiana University School of Medicine’s Dr. Karl Koehler and his colleagues originally began using mouse pluripotent stem cells, which can develop into any type of cells in the body, to create organoids (organs in vitro) that model the inner ear.
But the researchers discovered they were generating skin cells in addition to inner ear tissue, and their research shifted towards coaxing the cells into sprouting hair follicles.
Their recent research demonstrates that a single skin organoid unit developed in culture can give rise to both the epidermis (upper) and dermis (lower) layers of skin, which grow together in a process that allows hair follicles to form the same way as they would in a mouse’s body.
Source: Researchers Use Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells to Grow Hairy Skin
A process using pluripotent stem cells from mice can generate skin tissue complete with hair follicles, according to a team of researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine. The research is published in the journal Cell Reports.
Dr. Koehler and co-authors describe a defined in vitro 3D culture system that generates skin organoids from mouse pluripotent stem cells. The skin organoids contain self-organized skin layers and skin appendages, including hair follicles, sebaceous glands, and adipocytes.
Indiana University School of Medicine’s Dr. Karl Koehler and his colleagues originally began using mouse pluripotent stem cells, which can develop into any type of cells in the body, to create organoids (organs in vitro) that model the inner ear.
But the researchers discovered they were generating skin cells in addition to inner ear tissue, and their research shifted towards coaxing the cells into sprouting hair follicles.
Their recent research demonstrates that a single skin organoid unit developed in culture can give rise to both the epidermis (upper) and dermis (lower) layers of skin, which grow together in a process that allows hair follicles to form the same way as they would in a mouse’s body.
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