Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.View full ...

The Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will expand its research training program in skin biology with support from a five-year, $1.3 ...

Through single-cell RNA sequencing, researchers have created a detailed molecular atlas of the skin, which has revealed how cells are coordinated during hair growth and rest. Mammalian skin has the ...

Our bodies contain many different cell types, which are defined by the genes they express and the functions they carry out. Stem cells can differentiate into any type of cell, and in cellular ...

The skin is critically important to the body; it provides a protective barrier that shields us from our environment. The skin serves a variety of functions, helping us to sense the world around us as ...

Scientists have successfully created immature human egg-like cells from skin-derived stem cells, a significant step in ...

Researchers have identified a 3D fragment of fossilized skin that is at least 21 million years than previously described skin fossils. The skin, which belonged to an early species of Paleozoic reptile ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known skin fossils, dating back long before the dinosaurs. The samples, found in a cave in Oklahoma, USA, show that reptile scales haven’t changed much in the ...

Skin is pretty amazing. It is our largest organ, accounting for about 15% of our body weight. It protects our insides from the outside world, cools us off, and keeps us warm. To keep it intact, the ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is not the case, however, as a recent study indicates that the creatures had ...