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 ...
Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of ...
Fibroblasts are crucial cells for shaping tissue architecture and immune cell niches 1,2,3. Studying the heterogeneity of fibroblast subtypes has been challenging due to the scarcity of unique surface ...
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 ...
Aging is accompanied by progressive vascular dysfunction, but its effects on skin aging remain poorly understood. Although endothelial cell (EC) senescence is implicated in various age-related ...
Bio: Michelle Kordov is a junior at FCLC majoring in Integrative Neuroscience on the Cell and Molecular Track and minoring in ...
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 ...
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 ...