The Book of Human Skin is a lavish historical narrative with dramatic landscape and intricate plot that unfolds through multiple narrative voices, each offering a different perspective.

That’s because foreskin fibroblasts are big business. A fibroblast is a piece of human skin that is used as a culture to grow other skin or cells -- like human yogurt kits. Human foreskin ...

Harvard’s copy of Des Destinées de l’Ame has been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate for decades, but especially since the binding was confirmed to be human skin almost 10 years ago.

Warning: Article contains distressing content and pictures A family said they have felt haunted for 80 years by a piece of a lampshade made from human skin seized from a concentration camp and ...

VANCOUVER – Her advice may be followed by hordes of people, but a Vancouver group wants Oprah Winfrey to explain why she has endorsed an anti-wrinkle cream made with human foreskins.

Human skin was adapted to whatever conditions it found itself in. People took shelter, when they could find it, in caves and rock shelters, and got pretty good at making portable shelters from ...

This story was originally published on Dec. 19. The fuzzy covering on reindeer antlers could hold the key to scar-free, speedy healing for severe human skin injuries and burns, say researchers in ...