The skin is the largest human organ and a site of substantial disease burden, yet its cellular and molecular organization across the body is largely undefined. Here we construct an organ-wide ...

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 ...

Could wounded skin someday regrow perfectly without scars? A new study [LINK ACTIVATES AFTER EMBARGO] by Harvard stem cell biologists published March 20 in Cell reveals a way to fully regenerate skin ...

Among the most common peptides in skincare are signal peptides. “These essentially tell the skin to make more collagen and ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, have existed in the human body as a seeming paradox, causing inflammation ...

Skin wound healing shows a unique cellular function mechanism involving the interaction of several cells, growth factors, and cytokines. 3D illustration. [Ozgu Arslan/Getty Images] “Essentially, we ...

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