Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions -- abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel has now been shown to prevented adhesions in mice and pigs.

Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers have investigated collagen formation in the 'glass-skinned' amphibian axolotl and other vertebrates. They ...

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) play an important role in metastatic melanoma, and an enhanced understanding of that role could lead to important new therapeutic pathways, according to a new ...

Surgical adhesions—common, sometimes life-threatening complications that arise after open or laparoscopic abdominal ...

Surgical adhesions - common, sometimes life-threatening complications that arise after open or laparoscopic abdominal surgery - can be prevented in mice and pigs by a gel impregnated with a molecule ...

Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers at Okayama University have ...

Polyneucleotides – aka 'the salmon sperm treatment' – is becoming one of the most popular aesthetic tweakments to ask for in ...

The skin consists of two primary layers. The epidermis, the outermost layer, is predominantly made up of keratinocytes, while ...

Axolotl is an animal model widely used in dermatology research due to its transparent ‘glass skin.’ A study by researchers from Okayama University, Japan, discovered that healthy collagen fibers, ...

The skin consists of two primary layers. The epidermis, the outermost layer, is predominantly made up of keratinocytes, while the deeper dermis ...