The trade-off of this hardy external layer is that it doesn't expand; it remains relatively inflexible and constricts the ...

An aesthetician once told me that since I have a thicker dermis (the skin’s middle layer) with a high oil level, I’ll be less ...

Karl Koehler builds inner ear and skin organoids from human stem cells to model their development in health and disease.

Getting a tattoo means piercing your skin with needles and injecting ink into the second layer of the skin, called the dermis ...

Elastin is found in the connective tissue of the skin’s dermis layer. Environmental and lifestyle causes can worsen and accelerate elastosis. They include: Collagen is a protein found in the ...

Researchers from Graz University of Technology and the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in India are working on what ...

Second-degree burns, also known as partial-thickness burns, involve injury to the epidermis and the dermis, which are the ...

Volufiline is the patented name for the ingredient derived from the root of the plant Anemarrhena asphodeloides (which has ...

How to bank your collagen to cash in on it later. There’s a secret ingredient in our skin that makes it soft like cashmere, ...

The skin consists of two primary layers. The epidermis, the outermost layer, is predominantly made up of keratinocytes, while the deeper dermis contains blood vessels, nerves, and structural ...

Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers have investigated collagen formation in the 'glass-skinned' amphibian axolotl and other vertebrates.