As bioengineers, we became interested in the epithelial cells that make up human skin and the outer layer of people’s ... we wonder whether electrically stimulating individual cells might offer even ...

To capture this phenomenon, bioengineer Sun-Min Yu and engineering scientist Steve Granick — both of the University of Massachusetts Amherst — grew human skin cells or dog kidney cells on ...

Your skin might not be as quiet as you think ... made using a specially designed microchip coated with living human epithelial cells. The chip was embedded with 60 electrodes, allowing the ...

By analysing individual prenatal skin cells in space and time ... been shown to have a role to play a role in the formation of human skin on top of their known functions in wound healing and ...

American researchers have discovered the ability to epithelial cells human skin exchange signals and warn of danger. This came as a surprise to scientists, as it was previously believed that these ...

Working with mouse cells, the researchers developed a conversion method that is highly efficient and can produce more than 10 neurons from a single skin cell. If replicated in human cells, this ...

Now, Karl Koehler at Boston Children’s Hospital, United States, and his colleagues, have managed to generate skin organoids by directing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in a ...

While human skin shares gel-like characteristics ... The UV-radiation from the lamp causes the individual molecules to bind together so that everything becomes an elastic solid – a gel ...

While human skin shares some gel-like properties ... The UV-radiation from the lamp causes the individual molecules to bind together so that everything becomes an elastic solid—a gel. Around 80 to 90 ...

Think of how your skin heals itself after a scratch ... we wonder whether electrically stimulating individual cells might offer even more healing potential. Currently, researchers have been ...