The skin is an ecosystem, with a microscopic flora and fauna and diverse ecological niches: the desert of the forearm, the cool woods of the scalp and the tropical forest of the armpit ...

Researchers have created a map of human skin that uses genomics and other technologies to understand how skin forms and the mechanisms behind skin disorders. The findings could be used to create ...

The human skin is home to a wide variety of bacteria ... explains Associate Professor Yuuki Furuyama of Tokyo University of Science, the lead researcher in the study. Since culturing skin ...

A team has discovered how the human body creates skin from a stem cell, and even reproduced small amounts of skin in a lab. The research is part of a study to understand how every part of the ...

Now, Karl Koehler at Boston Children’s Hospital, United States, and his colleagues, have managed to generate skin organoids by directing the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells in a ...

Pigskin, which resembles human skin more closely than that of any other animal, was once used as a temporary bandage to protect the burn as it healed. Since the 1970s doctors have been working to ...

Scientists have created a human skin map which provides a “recipe” to build skin. The findings could be used to create new ...

Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers employed long-term skin conductance measurements to distinguish between emotions.