Accutane, known generically as isotretinoin, is not simply a strong acne medication. It is a systemic retinoid that ...

Tanning beds promise a quick glow, but a new study says the real cost is written deep into your skin. Researchers have found ...

In the 1990s, a team led by MIT’s Leonard P. Guarente, Ph.D., experimented on yeast, more formally known as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They identified an important set of genes involved in regulating a ...

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 ...

The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

In a new study, researchers from the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, and the International Research Center for Neurointelligence have unveiled a technique for creating lifelike robotic skin ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

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 ...