Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DO Key Takeaways The epidermis protects the body from ultraviolet radiation and ...

Purpura fulminans is a disorder where your skin bleeds and dies rapidly (skin necrosis). The bleeding is caused by blood clots in the dermal layer (skin layer under the top layer or epidermis). The ...

In the dermis skin layer, the same bacteria are found across age and gender. This has been shown by researchers from the University of Copenhagen in a new study which has studied skin samples from ...

While body modification itself is nothing new, dermal piercings, a newer method of body piercing, has been a huge hit in the last ten years. However, are dermal piercings more risky than standard body ...

Researchers found limited evidence that repetitive application of sunscreen with titanium dioxide provides a layer of deep dermal penetration, but suggest that further studies are needed, according to ...

Tissue engineering has emerged as a new and promising field for the treatment of skin lesions, combining scaffolds, cells and biomolecular signals, such as growth factors. It is a multidisciplinary ...

Dietary vitamin C from kiwifruit boosts ascorbate levels in deep skin layers, helping improve skin density, support collagen, ...

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

These cross-section images show three-dimensional human skin models made of living skin cells. Untreated model skin (left panel) shows a thinner dermis layer (black arrow) compared with model skin ...

Nanomedicine. 2013;8(4):603-621. Table 1. Strategies for the treatment of skin lesions: main advantages and limitations. Treatment of skin lesions Advantages Limitations Autografts 'Golden standard' ...