Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

Stress has a huge impact on the way our skin ages. Stress hormones speed up the ageing process, causing more fine lines and ...

Collagen, the body's most abundant protein, has long been viewed as a predictable structural component of tissues. However, a new study challenges that notion, revealing an unexpected confirmation in ...

Skin peeling on your face is a normal response to damage and loss of your epidermis (the upper layer of skin). Causes can involve external factors like sunburn or chemicals. It can also happen due to ...

Research conducted by an international team and led by biologists at the University of Kentucky has found that the ability to regenerate complex tissue may be more widespread in mammals than ...

Living with skin that’s prone to rosacea isn’t easy. Trying to pin down a trigger for your redness can be exhausting: It could be stress, extreme temperatures, spicy foods, fragrance ...

In addition to shortness of breath, there may be abnormal crackling sounds as you breathe from just under the skin of the neck or chest (known ... Risk factors include smoking, connective tissue ...

The advent of agriculture 12,000 years ago increased the availability of affordable, energy-dense, palatable food, resulting in a substantial effect on the evolutionary physiology of hunger that ...

Researchers have developed a way of bioprinting tissues that change shape as a result of cell-generated forces, in the same way that it happens in biological tissues during organ development.

Read more here. Building a skin-care routine for teens and tweens can seem complicated. Puberty is often the first time kids are dealing with acne, blackheads, dry patches, and the general roller ...

The stage of melanoma skin cancer tells you how thick it is and how far it has spread. Doctors use different systems to stage melanoma. These include the TNM system and number staging system. The ...

WHERE there is a superficial wound in the skin, new epidermis covers the denuded area by migration from the hair follicles and sweat gland ducts within the wound and from the surface epidermis at ...