Spatio-Temporal Regulation of Gene Expression Defines Subpopulations of Epidermal Stem Cells

November 2020 in “ Biochemical Society transactions ”

Maneesha Aruketty, Svitlana Kurinna

epidermal stem cells single-cell transcriptomics pseudotime inference RNA velocity cellular entropy regenerative medicine

Studysummary This narrative review discusses the discovery of plasticity in epidermal stem cells using single-cell transcriptomics, but reports no new results; it highlights the potential implications for regenerative medicine.

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