One fact is that our body has many moving parts that communicate with us every second, and the skin is one of them. A ...

This is a fluorescently labeled section of embryonic human skin. The dark, diagonal slash through the center of the image is a hair follicle (1). The pink areas are stem cells in the hair follicles ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem ...

Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...

Discover how psoriasis affects immune function and the role of SSAT1 in this chronic skin condition. Learn more now.

Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...

Skin Cells Communicate by 'Screaming' With Each Other Over Long Distances During Injuries, Say Scientists Experts continually are trying to understand how the human body responds to stimuli. Over the ...

Working with mouse cells, the researchers developed a conversion method that is highly efficient and can produce more than 10 neurons from a single skin cell. If replicated in human cells, this ...

Working with mouse cells, the researchers developed a highly efficient conversion method that can produce more than 10 neurons from a single skin cell. If replicated in human cells, this approach ...

Glucose is life's main energy source. But a new study reveals a surprising role as a master manipulator of tissue maturation, hinting at its importance in diabetes and cancer.