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Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, have existed in the human body as a seeming paradox, causing inflammation ...

For over 150 years, scientists have known that wounds alter electric fields across skin cells, says cell biologist Min Zhao of the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. But they didn ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social media posts showcasing the use of red light therapy devices at home are sparking interest in this trendy skin treatment — but does it deliver on its promises? While some studies have ...

The researchers found that a compound called SYM2081 inhibited inflammation-driving mast cells in mouse models and human skin samples, paving the way for new topical treatments to prevent itching ...

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 ...

"When mast cell activation events occur only in the skin, we refer to it as chronic urticaria and in the airways or conjunctiva of allergic individuals as allergic asthma, rhinitis, and/or ...

They then applied a mixture of human skin cells in a collagen scaffold, allowing the living tissue to grow into the anchors. So whose skin did the researchers use? As it turns out, living human ...

How would you summarize your study for a lay audience? Previous research indicates that mast cells, a type of immune cell found in the tissues throughout the body, cause inflammation during an ...

Mast cells live longer than normal cells, growing in your bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, skin, and airways. When you come into contact with an allergen or substance that causes allergies ...