Hair follicle stem cells (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University

Hair follicle stem cells

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Hair follicle stem cells (green) mobilize and expand (white) to help repair the skin’s barrier by differentiating into epidermal lineages (red).

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Robin Chemers Neustein Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University

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