This is a beautiful image of human brain cells, which can now be grown from adult skin cells.
This is a beautiful image of human brain cells, which can now be grown from adult skin cells.
[Here are] brain neural stem cells derived from human skin cells.
Yichen Shi
This is a beautiful image of human brain cells, which can now be grown from adult skin cells.
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Yichen Shi:
"Brain neural stem cells derived from human skin cells: these stem cells express typical marker genes of brain neocortical stem cells, such as Pax6 (Red fluorescent labelled), and form a rosette structure resembling the transection of the neural tube."
The entire image is about 250 μm across (a really thick bit of human hair).
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Read the 'Brain cells created from patients’ skin cells ' news story
Picture taken by Yichen Shi in the Livesey Lab
Voice over by Fred Lewsey.
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