The skin has three basic layers, each with a different role. Verywell Health. Layers of Skin and Their Functions. Story by Heather L. Brannon, MD ... its cells and functions are incorporated into ...

The skin is an important immunological organ, made up of key structures and cells. Depending on the immunological response, a variety of cells and chemical messengers (cytokines) are involved. These ...

When the skin is injured, a stem cell’s survival instincts kick in. New research reveals that a simple amino acid, serine, ...

The OSU team sought to tackle this problem by using skin cells as its starting point. ... with the mice receiving the treatment regaining 90 percent of their motor function.

Research from the Babraham Institute has developed a method to "time jump" human skin cells by 30 years, turning back the aging clock for cells without losing their specialized function. Work by ...

With age, tissues lose their function and capacity to regenerate after being damaged. A study published today in Cell by scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and ...

An extensive family of proteins that gives human skin mechanical strength also appears to organize molecular signals that ...

Immune cell populations in the skin are predominantly ... Several mouse models have enabled investigators to constitutively or conditionally ablate LCs and thus document their function 32,34 ...

Skin Cells Provide New Knowledge About Brain Functions Date: June 4, 2009 Source: The Swedish Research Council Summary: Until now diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been ...

Researchers have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells with distinct shapes, biomarkers, and functions -- an advance that could equip scientists with the ability to target and kill the ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells with distinct shapes, biomarkers, and functions—an advance that could equip scientists with the ...

New findings may explain why: Not all senescent skin cells are the same. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells with distinct shapes, ...