It has long been held that homeostasis of adult tissues is maintained by two populations of proliferating cells: a population of long-lived, self-renewing stem cells that support a second population ...

Dr. Slobodan Beronja studies how our skin develops to better understand skin cancer, including squamous cell carcinoma. Because we constantly shed the uppermost layer of our skin, we rely on ...

Schematic and photograph of a hydrogel patch adhered on the human skin through the silk adhesive. (Image: KAIST) Recently, biocompatible silk fibroins has been increasingly used for flexible ...

For a soccer-playing, holiday-loving boy on the brink of death from a rare inherited skin disease, doctors have accomplished a feat of genetic engineering, surgical stamina and raw nerve. Infections ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A number of epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors used in the oncology setting continue to demonstrate ...

Tissue engineering has emerged as a new and promising field for the treatment of skin lesions, combining scaffolds, cells and biomolecular signals, such as growth factors. It is a multidisciplinary ...