They also found evidence showing that the ability to form cornified skin appendages goes all the way back to early tetrapods. Corneous scales are considered to be appendages when they appear on ...

In order to investigate the evolution of skin appendages, which include human hair and nails, the MedUni Vienna research team, in collaboration with the University of Ghent (Belgium), used the ...

“Our laboratory try to apply these principles toward skin appendage stem cells to help patients suffered from burn injury to rebuild skin,” he said. The shared evolutionary history of reptiles ...

studying shark skin can give scientists a better idea of what vertebrates’ skin appendages — like hair and scales — looked like very early on. “We wanted to learn about the developmental ...