Mount Sinai researchers have published the first organ-wide human skin spatial atlas from across the body. It provides an ...

Skin, our largest organ, acts as a protective barrier against pathogens that try to invade our bodies while constantly ...

Could wounded skin someday regrow perfectly without scars? A new study by Harvard stem cell biologists published March 20 in ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...

Perhaps best known as a immune-system boost or antidote to scurvy, vitamin C has been found to rejuvenate aging skin by reactivating genes responsible for cell growth. By promoting DNA demethylation, ...

The palms of our hands and the bottoms of our feet aren’t the flashiest body parts, but they have a secret superpower that we don’t often appreciate—the ability to bear weight. “There was this one ...

Growing cells in the laboratory is an art that humans have mastered decades ago. Recreating entire three-dimensional tissues is much more challenging. Researchers are developing a new hydrogel-based ...

When the skin is injured, a stem cell’s survival instincts kick in. New research reveals that a simple amino acid, serine, helps push stem cells to abandon hair growth in favor of wound healing, ...