We demonstrate that these endogenous SKPs can first be isolated from skin during embryogenesis and that they persist into adulthood, with a niche in the papillae of hair and whisker follicles.

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The follicles grow naturally from clumps of cells called dermal papillae that play a pivotal role in hair growth. Scientists harvested dermal papillae from seven human donors, cloned them in the ...

which grow at the base of hair follicles, and cultured them in the lab so that they formed spheres. Next, they took the circumcised foreskin of infants and implanted the cultured dermal papillae ...

and the notion of cloning hair follicles using inductive dermal papilla cells has been around for 40 years or so. In the human skin, the dermal papillae are small, nipple-like extensions.

Infant foreskin was chosen “because it would challenge the human dermal papillae not just to contribute to hair follicles within the skin, but rather, to fully reprogram the recipient epidermis ...