A 2015 paper discovered them not just lurking but bristling with activity in the keratinized epithelial cells of human skin.

"By mimicking human skin-ligament structures and by using specially made V-shaped perforations in solid materials, we found a way to bind skin to complex structures." He said the natural ...

adopts a skin-like multilayer construction. Using microfabrication techniques, the team engineered a flexible device—roughly the size of the tip of a human thumb—that can sense different types of ...

The uncanny feat is the result of new technology using engineered living skin tissue and human-like ligaments to give robots a more natural smile, according to Tokyo University researchers who ...

While it might look like the stuff of nightmares, this tiny robot covered in living skin could mark a step forward in the quest to make robots more human-like. It’s the work of researchers in ...

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute ...

If you're looking to improve the appearance of your skin, you've probably come across ... that provides resilience and elasticity to vital organs in the human body. As the main component of ...

A study of 17 commonly used synthetic 'forever chemicals' has shown that these toxic substances can readily be absorbed through human skin. A study of 17 commonly used synthetic 'forever chemicals ...

The human skin, our body’s largest organ, serves as a protective barrier against harmful environmental elements. However, this same skin can fall victim to one of the most prevalent forms of ...

But human skin is really acidic." Humans play host to a colossal array of microorganisms, known as the microbiome, but we know little about our resident fungi and their contributions to human ...

Understanding how human skin differentiates commensals from pathogens and which skin cells mediate this differentiation, will be critical to ongoing development of new treatments.