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Stem Cell Research: Scientists Demonstrate How To Create Stem Cells From Skin Cells
By Minnow Blythe | Jan 23, 2017 06:23 PM ESTScientists did a loss-of and gain-of-function experiments to understand how skin cells are reprogrammed into stem cells.
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Skin Cancer Breakthrough: New Drug May Reduce Skin Cancer Spread By 90 Percent
By Angela Laguipo | Jan 06, 2017 11:46 AM ESTScientists may have the solution to the growing cases of aggressive melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer.
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Researchers Discovered Way to Use Skin Cells for Eliminating Cancer
By Kanika Gupta | Feb 27, 2016 05:57 PM ESTThe survival rate of patients after the treatment of glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, is only 30%. The patients who undergo the treatment do not survive more than two years as even if the surgeon removes the tumor, it is absolutely impossible to get rid of the tendrils that spread into the brain and make the tumor reappear.
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Mites On Your Body Belong To You, But May Tell You About Human Evolution and Migration
By R. Siva Kumar | Dec 17, 2015 10:14 PM ESTStudies show that body mites are loyal and have evolved with us through the aeons.
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Researchers Convert Skin Cells into Brain Cells
By Cheri Cheng | Oct 22, 2014 12:15 PM EDTResearchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have successfully converted skin cells into brain cells without going through a stem cell phase.
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Researchers Reprogram Skin Cells To Mimic Rare Genetic Disorder
By Kamal Nayan | Aug 22, 2014 01:52 AM EDTBiologists have devised a way to reprogram a patient's skin cells into cells that mimic and exhibit biological features of a rare genetic disorder called familial dysautonomia, according to a new study.
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Researchers Create Early-Stage Sperm Cells from Skin Cells
By Cheri Cheng | May 02, 2014 02:20 PM EDTIn a new study, researchers were able to create early-stage sperm cells from skin cells.
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Converting Adult Human Cells, the Answer for Balding?
By Cheri Cheng | Jan 28, 2014 03:54 PM ESTResearchers reported that converting adult human cells could help create hair-follicle-generating stem cells.
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Body Clock May Protect Against Skin Cancer
By Christine Hsu | Oct 10, 2013 02:39 PM EDTYour body clock does more than help you sleep. New research suggests that our circadian rhythms also help protect us from cancer.
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Brain Cells Grown from Skin Cells Reveal Certain Effects of Down Syndrome
By Cheri Cheng | May 27, 2013 03:09 PM EDTResearchers study Down syndrome affected cells produced by skin cells from people with the condition and found certain gene changes that could be linked to symptoms associated with the disorder.
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Scientists Grow Bones from Adult Skin Cells
By Makini Brice | May 07, 2013 10:02 AM EDTSuch technology could be used to help people with arthritis, broken bones or bones that have been damaged with disease.
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Scientists Find 'Cure' for Multiple Sclerosis By Turning Common Skin Cells into Working Brain Cells
By Christine Hsu | Apr 15, 2013 06:33 AM EDTScientists have discovered a way to convert ordinary skin cells into myelinating cells, or brain cells that have been destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other myelin disorders.
