Podcast: Lab-made skin grows its own hair

Podcast: Lab-made skin grows its own hair

Podcast: Lab-made skin grows its own hair Lab-grown skin has, up until now, had something missing: hair. Stem-cell researcher Karl Koehler tells the Nature Podcast how he and his colleagues made the leap — which could someday lead to skin grafts that include many more of the cells, glands, nerves and other components found in normal skin. “We are starting from pluripotent stem cells — these are cells that can become any cell in the body,” Koehler says. “We’re essentially recreating the entire developmental process of the skin.” Nature Podcast | 24 min listen Go deeper in the Nature News & Views article.Subscribe to the Nature Podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts or Spotify. Reference: Nature paper