When you nick your finger slicing vegetables, the outer layer of your skin starts patching itself within minutes. A study ...

It has long been held that homeostasis of adult tissues is maintained by two populations of proliferating cells: a population of long-lived, self-renewing stem cells that support a second population ...

Scientists have discovered that endoreduplication, which promotes cellular enlargement in the epidermal tissue of Arabidopsis thaliana, occurs randomly as a Poisson process throughout cellular ...

To ensure the barrier function of the skin, mutual regulation of connections between epidermal cells and a receptor for growth factors is necessary. These findings can help to reduce the effects of ...

Schematic and photograph of a hydrogel patch adhered on the human skin through the silk adhesive. (Image: KAIST) Recently, biocompatible silk fibroins has been increasingly used for flexible ...

For a soccer-playing, holiday-loving boy on the brink of death from a rare inherited skin disease, doctors have accomplished a feat of genetic engineering, surgical stamina and raw nerve. Infections ...

Scientists have long prized the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for studying the biology of multicellular organisms. The millimeter-long worms are easy to grow in the lab and manipulate ...