A fungating, or ulcerating, breast cancer is one in which the cancerous tissue breaks through the skin of the breast. This skin can start bleeding or weeping fluid, and the tumor can cause the skin to ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom and Denmark have studied the "see-through" larvae of zebrafish to reveal how wound healing leads to skin cancer. Live imaging shows neutrophils, the protective ...

High levels of a molecule known as serpinB3 are known to be a reliable marker of serious diseases including inflammatory disorders and some types of cancer. Certain serpinB3 levels can indicate ...

ASU researchers Jordan Yaron and Kaushal Rege have found that the previously mysterious protein SerpinB3 plays a vital role in the body’s natural wound-healing process. Their findings could lead to ...

Cancer biomarker with surprising second job could inspire new chronic wound therapies. Scientists from Arizona State University (AZ, USA) have discovered that a protein associated with epithelial ...

Mika Stambaugh calls herself “an ‘80s baby” who didn’t use sunscreen while growing up and loving the outdoors. Her family owned a lake house, so she was there most every weekend in the summer. She ...

discovered that the parasitic worm that kills tens of thousands of people every year may also supercharge recovery from wounds.