You might feel the same every day, but biologically, you never are. Beneath the surface, your body is constantly rebuilding ...

An international team of scientists, led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), has discovered a new ...

New research from scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) describes a process for converting skin cells directly into neurons that bypasses the induced pluripotent stem cell ...

When the skin is injured, a stem cell’s survival instincts kick in. New research reveals that a simple amino acid, serine, helps push stem cells to abandon hair growth in favor of wound healing, ...

Aging is inevitable, but how quickly visible aging shows up—especially in the skin—is influenced by far more than birthdays ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- 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, ...

Scientists created living skin that glows green to detect inflammation. The biological sensor worked for 200+ days in mice.

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...