Skin cells = stem cell?
02/03/11 | by admin | My finds, Skin Care Info | 1 Comment »-->When I read this headline this morning, it stopped me in my tracks. Scientists used skin cells to create cells to make beating heart cells ( stem cells, I am guessing) WOW, again, this could lead to a big breakthrough in research and development to find cures for so many diseases. Amazing!! if you ask me. Skin cells, yeah I am amazed.
Take a minute to read the article. 
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……………………..Glycerin or glycerol is a natural alcohol and water attractor thats been used in skin care products for centuries says Doctor Wendy Bollinger Bollag cell physiologist…In research published in the December issue of The Journal of Investigative Dermatology she and co-author Doctor Xiangjian Zheng who worked as a graduate student in her lab and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University show that glycerol also makes skin look and function better by helping skin cells mature properly. ..This is a pretty novel hypothesis that is really quite in its infancy Doctor Bollag says of the finding that glycerol works as a signal to help direct skin cells through their four normal stages of maturity.