Dissociating tissues into single cells is a core laboratory technique and vital for widely used applications such as next-generation sequencing or flow cytometry. Scientists who employ tissue ...

“We can make a skin cell make functional blood vessels or other tissue required for therapeutics. Ultimately, this technology could help us rescue organ function lost to aging or trauma.

EVIDENCE for direct cell-to-cell communication is now available for a wide variety of epithelial tissues 1–4. At the surfaces of cell contact (junctional surfaces), the cell membranes in these ...