A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

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

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 ...

A microscope image of a human egg contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University) WASHINGTON — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create ...

Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of the most detailed views of life ever recorded. Day and night, they collect ...

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 ...