Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then differentiated ...

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 ...

Skin wound healing shows a unique cellular function mechanism involving the interaction of several cells, growth factors, and cytokines. 3D illustration. [Ozgu Arslan/Getty Images] “Essentially, we ...

For over 150 years, scientists have known that wounds alter electric fields across skin cells, says cell biologist Min Zhao of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. But they didn’t ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

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For nearly a century, the gold standard for closing severe burn wounds has been split-thickness skin grafts. Surgeons remove the outermost layer of skin, the epidermis, and a sliver of the underlayer, ...