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 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 ...

For people with chronic wounds, this is a reality. But experts have created an artificial skin that can protect and detect things the way human skin does. Artificial skin, or electronic skin (e ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “None of us in the field—and this is true for the gut, this is true for the skin—none of us can actually tell how our experimental observations ...

These devices rely on electrodes, sensors that touch the skin to pick up electrical signals from the body. Creating these ...

They created a human skin explant system using full-thickness skin biopsies from healthy individuals, which contained both deeper (dermal), and surface (epidermal) layers of skin. To study how ...

More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ligands ... exhibits different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to ...