Hairy, lab-grown human skin cell model could advance hair loss research
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 19:40
in Biology & Nature
A new, hair-sprouting dollop of human skin created in the lab might one day help prevent hair loss. An article describes the hairy creation as the first hair-baring human skin organoid made with pluripotent stem cells, or the master cells present during early stages of embryonic development that later turn into specific cell types.