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Article: Vital: GET RID OF THE DEAD SKIN CELLS WITH THESE TREATMENTS.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  January 3, 2006 ;     273 words ......had micro-dermabrasion - a skin resurfacing treatment which lifts all the grime and dead skin cells off your face - before and...your face, sloughing off dead skin while suction takes away...rejuvenated the surrounding healthy skin cells. It works by delivering ...

Article: Engineered skin cells combat infections.(Tissue engineering)(University of Cincinnati, Ohio)
Chemistry and Industry;  January 29, 2007 ;     335 words ......genetically engineered cultures of their own skin cells to help them fight infection. US scientists...Cincinnati, Ohio genetically engineered skin cells to increase the production of a small...HBD4). HBD4 is normally produced in skin cells at low levels. The engineered skin ...

Article: Researchers cured mice with a version of Parkinson's disease by treating them with brain cells made from clones of their own skin cells.(RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY)(Brief article)
MondayMorning;  March 31, 2008 ;     224 words ......brain cells made from clones of their own skin cells. The researchers employed nuclear transfer...mice, plucked out the nucleus of the skin cells, and inserted them into egg cells from...genetically identical to the mouse whose skin cells were initially removed. The researchers...

Article: U.S. scientists creat neurons from skin cells of elderly ALS patients
Xinhua News Agency;  August 2, 2008 ;     458 words ...U.S. scientists creat neurons from skin cells of elderly ALS patients WASHINGTON, Aug...amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) patient's skin cells into motor neurons, a process that may...Science. This is the first time that skin cells from a chronically-ill patient have been...

Article: Skin cells reprogrammed as embyonic stem cells.(News)(Brief article)
Podiatry Now;  January 1, 2008 ;     120 words ...Scientists have succeeded in turning ordinary skin cells into powerful embryonic stem cells. Skin cells can be taken from those suffering from...smuggle a set of four genes into human skin cells, which then manipulated adult cells back...

Article: DT Extra: Germ-resistant skin cells
Dermatology Times;  February 1, 2007 ;     88 words ......Cincinnati say they have made germ-resistant skin cells that could one day save the lives of severe burn victims. Skin cells genetically altered to produce higher...substitutes, killed more bacteria than normal skin cells when tested in the lab against Pseudomonas...

Article: HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE IMPACTS SKIN CELLS
United Press International;  July 30, 2004 ;     224 words ......30-2004 Huntington's disease impacts skin cells BELMONT, Mass., Jul 30, 2004 (United...that causes Huntington's disease affects skin cells as well as brain cells, U.S. scientists...McLean Hospital have now discovered that skin cells, too, are affected by Huntington's. Proteasome...

Article: Harvard-Columbia team creates neurons from ALS patient's skin cells.
NewsRx Health;  August 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ......sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease) patient's skin cells into motor neurons, a process that may...Science. This is the first time that skin cells from a chronically-ill patient have been...be able to obtain them from patients' skin cells, says co-author Chris Henderson, Ph.D...

Article: Scientists turn skin cells into insulin producing ones
The Hindustan Times;  September 18, 2008 ;     290 words ......Washington, Sept. 18 -- Scientists have turned skin cells into cells producing insulin - the hormone...The approach involves reprogramming skin cells into pluripotent stem cells, or cells...have we shown that we can reprogramme skin cells, but we have also demonstrated that these...

Article: U.S. researchers produce cloned embryos from skin cells
Xinhua News Agency;  January 18, 2008 ;     264 words ......researchers produce cloned embryos from skin cells LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Researchers...produced human clone embryos from adult skin cells, in an advancement toward developing...in the experiment was retrieved from skin cells called fibroblasts. In genetic tests...

Article: Scientists make skin cells think they are young.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 21, 2007 ;     510 words ......have found a way to re-programme human skin cells so they cannot be distinguished from...conducted in Japan last year, and allows skin cells to regress to an immature state, giving...four gene-controlling proteins to cause skin cells from embryonic mice to develop ESC-like...

Article: Skin cells shine a light on sleep's 'larks' and 'owls'
The Independent - London;  January 29, 2008 ;     125 words ......getting up early or late are determined by genes, and even skin cells. Fragments of skin can be used to tell whether someone is...to life at sunrise, or an "owl" who feels awake at night. Skin cells carry an in-built timing mechanism set by the body's central...

Article: Mouse method turns skin cells to stem cells.(BIOMEDICINE)(reprogramming mouse skin cells)(Brief article)
Science News;  July 14, 2007 ;     219 words ...Scientists have reprogrammed mouse skin cells to mimic embryonic stem cells that can morph into any type...researchers had trouble isolating the less than 0.1 percent of skin cells that became fully reprogrammed by the added genes. Yamanaka...

Article: Saving Your Skin.(new skin product Pycnogenol that protects skin cells)(Brief Article)
Newsweek;  May 24, 1999 ;     177 words ......and not with its shade. When the sun's ultraviolet rays hit skin cells, molecules called free radicals go on a rampage, leading to...the name Pycnogenol is especially effective at protecting skin cells. Extracted from the bark of a pine tree that grows only in...