Tiny folds anchoring human skin, called 'rete ridges,' form soon after birth. They show an early-life window that could ...

The skin consists of two primary layers. The epidermis, the outermost layer, is predominantly made up of keratinocytes, while ...

The inception of human skin-equivalent cultures occurred in the early 1980s. Since then, each rendition has added a layer of sophistication to achieve greater likeness to human skin. The lab of Dr.

Purpura fulminans is a disorder where your skin bleeds and dies rapidly (skin necrosis). The bleeding is caused by blood clots in the dermal layer (skin layer under the top layer or epidermis). The ...

Nanomedicine. 2013;8(4):603-621. Table 1. Strategies for the treatment of skin lesions: main advantages and limitations. Treatment of skin lesions Advantages Limitations Autografts 'Golden standard' ...

These cross-section images show three-dimensional human skin models made of living skin cells. Untreated model skin (left panel) shows a thinner dermis layer (black arrow) compared with model skin ...

Axolotl is an animal model widely used in dermatology research due to its transparent ‘glass skin.’ A study by researchers from Okayama University, Japan, discovered that healthy collagen fibers, ...

Solar elastosis, also known as actinic elastosis, is a condition in which there is chronic sunlight-induced damage to the skin, particularly the upper and middle dermal layers which are especially ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...