Why do wrinkles form as we age? A new study has revealed that aging skin stretches more sideways under tension, causing it to ...

Melanoma testing could one day be done at home with a skin patch and test strip with two lines, similar to COVID-19 home tests, according to University of Michigan researchers.

As well as demonstrating that human skin specimens actively support EBOV infection, the study results also suggest that the skin’s surface may be one route of person-to-person transmission.

“ Engineered skin started with only two cell types, but human skin has around 50 types of cells. Most research had focused on mimicking the cellular components of human skin,” Abaci said.

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And Keratinocytes represent "the major cell type of the epidermis, the outermost of the layers of the skin, making up about 90 percent of the cells there," according to PromoCell's website.

Using a 3D human skin model in the lab, the researchers added VC at 1.0 and 0.1 mM – tiny concentrations similar to what would be transported from the bloodstream into the epidermis – to it.