by Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute – MedicalXpress –
For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease.
Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle University and their collaborators used single cell sequencing and other genomics techniques to create the atlas and uncover how human skin, including hair follicles, is formed. These insights could be used to create new hair follicles in regenerative medicine and skin transplants for burn victims.
