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The Skin(ny) on Regenerating the Largest Organ to Save a Patient's Life
1Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Cell Stem Cell
|January 6, 2018
Abstract:
Stem cells hold enormous potential to regenerate an entire organ for organ replacement therapy. Recently, in Nature, Hirsch et al. (2017) restored the expression of laminin-332 in epidermal stem cells isolated from an individual with junctional epidermolysis bullosa and grafted the entire skin back to save the patient's life.