The skin is an ecosystem, with a microscopic flora and fauna and diverse ecological niches: the desert of the forearm, the cool woods of the scalp and the tropical forest of the armpit ...

A 2024 study found that jojoba oil may reduce some oil secretions by as much as 30% based on their research applying jojoba to a human skin organ culture model that emulates key features of human ...

More recently, studies have investigated adhesins for human keratinocytes and their ligands ... exhibits different patterns of colonization to skin epithelial layers, which may contribute to ...

But little was understood about the circadian rhythms of skin. At first, Pernodet and her team studied human skin cells grown from younger and older subjects in the lab. They found evidence of ...

Harvard's library said the human skin binding on one of its books was finally removed after nearly a century. The copy of the French book "Des destinées de l'âme" was bound with skin taken from ...

While human skin shares gel-like characteristics, it has unique qualities that are very hard to replicate. It combines high stiffness with flexibility, and it has remarkable self-healing capabilities, ...