The human skin is a marvel of nature—resilient, adaptable, and multifunctional. As the body's largest organ, it serves as our first line of defense against external threats while maintaining an ...

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And often you’re not even aware that they exist. There are tons of things we ...

Did you know your skin is the largest organ in your body? The average fifth-grader has more than 6 pounds of skin. Whoa. Skin protects the inside of your body from the dirty outside world. It keeps ...

ROCHESTER — Among all of the things skin, the body's largest organ, is good at, it's particularly great at regrowing itself. "The skin turns over every 30 days," said Dr. Saranya Wyles, a ...

The word skin has come to stand for superficiality and lack of depth, but human skin defies such connotations. For one thing, it is enormous, accounting for roughly 15% of a person’s body weight. Skin ...

Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Newcastle University, together with a team of international collaborators, have created a single-cell atlas of prenatal human skin, and a “mini organ” ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa (UI) Health Care and colleagues at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, and Boston University, used human skin explants to track the cellular route that the ...

Cellulite is exceedingly common in women and can affect men, too, so why do we get it and can anything be done to reduce it?

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, ...