When asked about battling a skin condition illness in recent years, Rodriguez revealed she was told that it was mast cell activation ... seemed to be in a perfect spot to capture the title ...

There are many other types of rashes with a wide variety of causes. Treatment for a rash requires the correct diagnosis and can include medication and avoiding potential triggers.  Easily ...

The fifth manifestation involves the skin, where mast cells reside abundantly. Flushing, hives, itching, swelling and rashes may appear, sometimes triggered by heat, pressure, sunlight or ...

Skin microbes do more than coexist—they shape immune responses, repair tissue, and influence gene expression across your ...

Spots can also look very different depending on your skin tone. Some pink, red, or brown spots are more obvious on fair to ...

Washington DC: Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat ...

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 ...

The team tested the technique by converting mouse skin cells to motor neurons. And sure enough, this resulted in a yield of over 1,000%. The resulting motor neurons were found to produce ...

The work is published in the journal STAR Protocols. Hydrogels in which skin cells survive and grow "The hydrogels for our skin imitation from the 3D printer have to fulfill a number of ...

Think of how your skin heals ... travel from spot to spot. Then, we used a laser to zap a wound in one location and searched for electric signals on a different part of the cell layer.