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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The epidermis protects the body from ultraviolet radiation and prevents water loss. The dermis contains glands that produce oil and sweat, helping regulate temperature and skin health. The hypodermis, ...

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 ...

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 ...