The skin is an ecosystem, with a microscopic flora and fauna and diverse ecological niches: the desert of the forearm, the cool woods of the scalp and the tropical forest of the armpit ...

Now, Karl Koehler at Boston Children’s Hospital, United States, and his colleagues, have managed to generate skin organoids by directing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in a ...

However, when Erbacher looked at skin tissue under the microscope, he noticed that nerve fibers did not just grow around skin cells but, to the whole team’s surprise, tunneled straight through them.

The cells staring back at Plikus through the microscope were distinctly fattier ... They appear in many mammals, including humans, and the unique structure they provide gives reconstructive ...

Demodex brevis is a microscopic mite that lives in the oil ... between the two is that Demodex folliculorum feeds on skin cells while Demodexbrevis feeds on sebum, a natural oily substance found ...

Though Demodex mites are often seen as unwelcome guests, they play an essential role in the skin’s ecosystem. By maintaining ...

Exosomes are gaining recognition for their potential applications in medicine, particularly in wound healing and inflammation reduction.

Researchers have now used a new technique to identify two genes that control how melanoma skin cancer ... research has ...

“Interactions of EBOV with skin cells have not previously been extensively examined … Our work provides evidence for one mechanistic avenue that EBOV uses to exit from the human body. A ...

ChatGPT recently passed the Turing test, a remarkable experiment devised to test whether humans ... just like our skin! When the skin sustains a cut or scrape, the cultured skin cells can ...