Fate by Chance, not by Choice: Epidermal Stem Cells Go Live

Meryem Gonzalez-Celeiro; Bing Zhang; Ya-Chieh Hsu

doi:10.1016/j.stem.2016.06.010

Fate by Chance, not by Choice: Epidermal Stem Cells Go Live

Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Jul 7;19(1):8-10. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.06.010.

Authors

Meryem Gonzalez-Celeiro¹, Bing Zhang¹, Ya-Chieh Hsu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
² Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: yachieh_hsu@harvard.edu.

PMID: 27392221
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.06.010

Abstract

The skin epidermis is constantly renewed by epidermal stem cells. In a recent Science paper, Rompolas et al. utilize live imaging to track epidermal stem cells over their lifetimes. Their findings provide new insights into epidermal stem cell behaviors and unravel how newly generated cells are integrated into pre-existing tissues.

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MeSH terms

Epidermis*
Epithelial Cells
Humans
Skin
Stem Cells*