Two proteins with opposing functions orchestrate the development and maintenance of healthy skin, Stanford Medicine ...

If your complexion has been looking tired, lackluster, or lacking its usual glow, your skincare routine may not be the only ...

Two proteins with opposing functions orchestrate the development and maintenance of healthy skin, Stanford Medicine ...

For nearly a century, the gold standard for closing severe burn wounds has been split-thickness skin grafts. Surgeons remove ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that senescent cells—non-dividing "zombie" cells—accumulate in the skin as people age and may influence aging in other parts of the body. Their recent study revealed ...

Human skin is constantly rebuilding itself. Every few weeks, the outermost layers shed and are replaced by new cells pushed up from the base. For decades, scientists believed this renewal depended ...

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then differentiated ...

New research from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describes a process for converting skin cells directly into neurons that bypasses the induced pluripotent stem cell ...

A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

Skin cancer cannot transmit from person to person. It is not contagious and cannot spread through touch, contact, or any other means. Skin cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the skin cells. It ...