title: Fate by Chance, not by Choice: Epidermal Stem Cells Go Live.
abstract: The skin epidermis is constantly renewed by epidermal stem cells. In a recent Science paper, Rompolas et al. utilize live imaging to track epidermal stem cells over their lifetimes. Their findings provide new insights into epidermal stem cell behaviors and unravel how newly generated cells are integrated into pre-existing tissues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Meryem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Celeiro
authors.affiliation: Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Bing
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: yachieh_hsu@harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Ya-Chieh
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D004817:Epidermis; D004847:Epithelial Cells; D006801:Humans; D012867:Skin; D013234:Stem Cells