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

One of the most amazing things to happen in biology in the last couple of years is cellular reprogramming. We learned how to ...

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

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

The adipose tissue, which serves as an endocrine organ, releases various molecules that regulate the repair of other damaged ...

Adult skin stem cells from the mouse are used for cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer. It has also been suggested that reprogramming by oocytes, and hence cloning efficiency, may vary ...

Hemalatha et al. track the endogenous redox ratio (NAD(P)H/FAD) with live imaging in the mouse skin to study the interface of wild-type stem cells with oncogenic mutant cells. They find that ...