Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients ...

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, coauthors Jordan Yaron, Kaushal Rege and their colleagues with the Biodesign Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation discovered that the protein SerpinB3 is part of the body ...

A new wearable device, a-Heal, combines AI, imaging, and bioelectronics to speed up wound recovery. It continuously monitors wounds, diagnoses healing stages, and applies personalized treatments like ...

You can be super cautious and still manage to graze your fingertip instead of that bell pepper on your cutting board—then you’re faced with how to stop a cut from bleeding all over your meal prep. It ...

Human wounds take longer to heal than the wounds of other mammals, researchers find. That could be because we have fewer hair follicles, and stem cells in hair follicles help regrow skin after an ...

Bruises are an inevitable part of life, but they can also be painful and unsightly. Here's what you can do to reduce the pain ...

URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — U of I researchers are changing the way broken bones heal by 3D printing materials to make the recovery process faster. Shelly Zhang, an assistant civil and environmental ...