About 20 years ago, scientists discovered that skin cells could be converted into pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem ...

There is a specialized subset of sensory neurons called nociceptors that are able to sense pain. These neurons are spread throughout our skin, our muscles, and in most of our internal organs.

One sensory neuron, which seems important in distinguishing between different kinds of social touch, quickly adapts in this way. It is connected to hair follicles in the skin and is called a hair ...

Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries ...

The extent to which the sensory neuron endings grew into the damaged tissue was surprising ... They tested the effect of purified engineered CGRP on skin and muscle injuries in mice with ablated ...

This is why the response is so fast. Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal ...

Converting one type of cell to another - for example, a skin cell to a neuron - can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...

Washington DC: Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat ...

At about 6 months, axons in the skin began to degenerate ... cell sequencing to detect changes in immune cells near sensory neuron axons in peripheral nerves. One type of immune cell residing ...