Human skin cells News
Though the findings, published in the journal eLife, are at an early stage of exploration, they could revolutionise regenerative medicine.
Unlike commonly studied mouse motor neurons, human motor neurons growing in the lab would be a new tool since researchers cannot take samples of these neurons from living people but can easily take skin samples.
Fully functional pancreatic cells have been cultured by scientists from human skin cells, potentially meaning the end of daily insulin injections for sufferers of the disease.
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