Experimental cell therapy improves skin resilience, advancing treatments for skin injuries

Experimental cell therapy helps ordinary skin mimic tough palm tissue

In a phase I clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have partially transformed ordinary human skin cells into volar skin - the durable skin found exclusively on the palms and soles that resists friction and pressure.

Experimental cell therapy improves skin resilience, advancing treatments for skin injuries

In a phase 1 clinical trial, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have partially transformed ordinary human skin cells into volar skin—the durable skin found exclusively on the palms and soles that resists friction and pressure.