Radiation therapy is highly effective at killing cancer cells, but it often harms healthy skin around the treatment area, a ...

Tiny folds anchoring human skin, called 'rete ridges,' form soon after birth. They show an early-life window that could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Epithelial cells from finger skin stained pink. (Yaroslav Stepaniuk/Alamy Stock Photo) Neurons talk to one another using ...

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Why are giraffes’ tongues purple? – Winona, 6, Wisconsin. Dear Winona, When I was little, I visited a drive through zoo. A giraffe slithered its long, purple ton ...

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 ...

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Your skin is in a constant state of reinvention. Every month, your body sheds and regenerates its entire outer layer—a complete turnover powered by tiny, tireless stem cells. These same cells spring ...

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 ...

A microscope image of a human egg contains a nucleus taken from a skin cell. (Mitalipov Laboratory at Oregon Health & Science University) WASHINGTON — Oregon scientists used human skin cells to create ...