When we get a bacterial infection in our skin, our immune system responds. It's been thought that inflammatory cells called monocytes are crucial to eliminating infection, although different immune ...

Colorado School of Mines researcher develops polymer material that reduces inflammation and prevents infection.

Humans aren't capable of regenerating lost limbs, but our bodies can heal from many wounds. Whenever we scratch or cut our skin, for example, skin stem cells move in to regrow the epidermis and repair ...

Wound repair is an essential component of life. Without it any minor cuts or scrapes could be extremely damaging or even lethal. Paper cuts are bad enough already without having to consider them ...

A defining characteristic of all cells is the plasma membrane, a thin layer of lipids that separates the interior of the cell from the outside environment. The plasma membrane is supported by the ...

Why does the face scar less than the rest of the body? New research uncovers the cellular pathway behind this difference.

The study is the first to identify a damage response pathway that is distinct from but parallel to the classical pathway triggered by pathogens. It's a dangerous world out there. From bacteria and ...

Researchers found that a common antibiotic-resistant bacterium prevents wounds from healing by chemically paralyzing skin cells rather than attacking them directly. Scientists from an international ...

Tweaking a pattern of wound healing established millions of years ago may enable scar-free injury repair after surgery or trauma, Stanford Medicine researchers have found. If results from their study, ...

The same family of transcription factors directs the epidermal wound repair in mice and flies, according to two research teams. Their findings might clarify the pathways that initiate outer barrier ...