News Fresh Today: Epidermolysis Bullosa may be Treated Using Stem Cells According to Researchers

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a new technique called "therapeutic reprogramming", wherein induced pluripotent stem cells made from patients with a form of blistering skin disease are genetically corrected and used to grow back healthy skin cells in laboratory dishes. The skin cells formed normal human skin when grafted onto the backs of laboratory mice, they said. The findings represent a major advance in the battle ...