Synthetic forms of the pineal gland polypeptide Epithalamin include Epitalon, Epithalone, and Epithalon. Russian scientist Vladimir Khavinson speculated that it may positively impact telomerase ...

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 ...

New research has shown that single blood vessel cells that appear in the earliest stages of lab-grown skin organoids have the ...

Growing cells in the laboratory is an art that humans have mastered decades ago. Recreating entire three-dimensional tissues is much more challenging. Researchers are developing a new hydrogel-based ...

A new study has identified a molecular guardian that keeps skin cells from forgetting what they are and transforming into ...

Alberto Pappalardo was nervous the morning before the transplant. He’d spent the previous month nurturing a cluster of skin cells until they reached their final form: a pinkish-white tissue in the ...

New research shows that skin cells store protein-making machinery at their edges, enabling rapid repair when the skin barrier is damaged. The system relies on desmosomes, which hold messenger RNAs and ...