Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. "We know each of the ...

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 ...

The sequential addition of growth factors triggered the differentiation of human pluripotent stem ... which gave rise to cells of the dermis in the face. After the cells grew for 70 days as ...

When this happens, embryonic face cells are unable to fuse to form the ... which appears today in the American Journal of Human Genetics. Cleft lip and cleft palate, also known as orofacial ...