by Robin Marks, University of California, San Francisco Microscope image of skin fascia showing TIFFs labeled in green. Selected TIFFs are labeled in pink to visualize their star-like shape. Credit: Rosenblum Lab The surprise discovery of a new type of cell explains how distress to the skin early in life may prime a person for...
by University of Southern California USC researchers have successfully grown human, testosterone-producing cells in the lab, paving the way to someday treat low testosterone with personalized replacement cells. In today’s Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences, scientists describe how they transformed stem cells into functioning Leydig cells—the cells in the testes that produce the...
