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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Skin Deep

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Shown are microscopic images of human epidermis with pluripotent stem cells derived from donated skin cells. The images on the left are epidermis from a healthy control subject, the images at right being from a person with Fanconi anemia. The colorful confocal images (bottom) offer a more superficial view that does not reveal differences between control and FA samples. The black and white electron microscopic images, with 1,000-fold greater magnification, do reveal defects in the FA epidermis. Researchers studying Fanconi anemia-related skin disease and cancer report new data in Cell Stem Cell.

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