Mild wounds healed faster if people took a spray containing the "love hormone" oxytocin and set aside time to praise their ...

Scientists have developed a “smart” bandage that can heal a serious wound 25% faster than the average bandage. The research, which was published in Nature Biotechnology revealed that these bandages ...

BOSTON – A parasitic worm could help skin wounds heal faster and better. Skin wounds must close quickly to avoid infection but this rapid closure promotes the formation of scar tissue rather than ...

Rockefeller scientists uncovered how hair follicle stem cells can switch from growing hair to repairing skin when nutrients ...

When doctors detect elevated levels of SerpinB3 in a blood test, it can signal that something is seriously wrong, from ...

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The skin has two types of adult stem cells: epidermal and hair follicle. Their jobs seem well-defined: maintaining the skin, or maintaining hair growth. But as research from Rockefeller University has ...

Scientists discovered that nanosilicates can help the body grow new blood vessels, which is essential for healing wounds and damaged tissues. This finding could lead to better treatments for injuries ...

New findings report that a class of small RNAs (microRNAs), microRNA-29, can restore normal skin structure rather than producing a wound closure by a connective tissue (scar). Any improvement of ...

The next time you get a scuff or scratch, you might not think slapping some fish skin on it sounds like the best idea, but that's effectively what a team of researchers from Shanghai Jiaotong ...

A protein previously linked to cancer and chronic illnesses has been found to have a natural health benefit. When doctors ...

Almost seven million people in the United States live with a chronic, non-healing wound. Diabetes, increased age, blood flow complications, obesity and other factors contribute to the growing number ...