Human skin is constantly rebuilding itself. Every few weeks, the outermost layers shed and are replaced by new cells pushed ...

Researchers in Taiwan have developed a cell-free extracellular matrix material from axolotl skin that helped mouse burn ...

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

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

In wound healing, immune response, and cancer metastasis, cells migrate through the body—often squeezing through narrow, confined spaces. Together with experimental collaborators, Professor David ...

How the skin enables immune defences is not fully clear. Now a pathway has been found in skin cells that boosts the production of antibodies to protect the whole body. Beyond its role as a physical ...

It is well known that students who prepare in advance perform better on exams. Now, it appears that the skin can do the same. Rather than scrambling to repair itself only after injury occurs, a Korean ...

New research has updated the understanding of how sugars, known as glycans, help immune cells move into the skin in the inflammatory disease, psoriasis. The paper titled "Leukocytes have a heparan ...