Under the Microscope #12 - Brain cells from skin cells by University of Cambridge This is a beautiful image of human brain cells, which can now be grown from adult skin cells.

Scientists have gotten their best look ever at interactions inside human skin cells, finding a Velcro-like setup that links them and makes skin strong while also supple.

The topmost part of your epidermis is the skin barrier, aka stratum corneum. If you mess with it, your skin can quickly ...

Microscope image of skin fascia showing TIFFs labeled in green. Selected TIFFs are labeled in pink to visualize their star-like shape. Image credit: Rosenblum Lab The surprise discovery of a new type ...

For months, I thought nothing of it. But then the spot started turning red last December. “Maybe it’s just a pimple,” I ...

Our skin’s epithelial cells send electrical signals like neurons to cry out for help ...

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, ...

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, have existed in the human body as a seeming paradox, causing inflammation ...

Human cells hacked to act like squid skin cells could unlock key to camouflage It's not possible to culture squid skin cells in the lab; this approach provides a solution.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel type of cancer therapy to treat aggressive forms of melanoma using immune system cells from a patient's tumor. The treatment, called Amtagvi ...