During the wound-healing process, there's an increase in fibroblast activity, which revs up collagen production in the skin. If your skin produces a little too much collagen around the site of a wound ...

But you'd never guess what caused this handsome young man to depressed until he takes off his shirt and see his "web-like" keloid scars. Griffin first noticed his keloid, a benign growth caused when ...

DIY manicures are having a bit of a resurgence with regular polish, press-on nails and gel manicures all picking up in popularity. After all, our monthly budgets are getting smaller and our lives ...

Abstract: This paper presents an experimental study of streamer inception in a silicone gel. Many parameters are able to influence the inception of discharges in a gel: voltage wave shape, electrode ...

The target lesion showed diffuse hyperechogenicity and the “snowstorm” sign, typically associated with free silicone impregnation (Figure 3), subsequently confirmed by histopathological analysis. To ...

Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic of China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China ...