The skin is the largest organ in the human body. It makes up about 15% of our body weight and protects us from pathogens, ...

When stress hits, hair stem cells switch from growing hair to repairing skin, offering new insights into how our bodies ...

Ageing is an unavoidable part of life but a new study suggests that an everyday vitamin can help to reduce the impact of skin ...

Vitamin C prevents age-related thinning of the skin by switching on genes that promote skin cell growth, a new study has found.The research, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, ...

Perhaps best known as a immune-system boost or antidote to scurvy, vitamin C has been found to rejuvenate aging skin by ...

Researchers extracted fibroblasts -- cells that produce the scaffolding to give tissues their structure -- associated with skin tissue and pushed them toward senescence by damaging their DNA ...

New findings may explain why: Not all senescent skin cells are the same. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells with distinct shapes, ...