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Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD Key Takeaways Thin skin is most common in older adults and usually appears on the face, arms, and hands. UV light from the sun can cause skin to become thin and ...

We explain why snakes have to shed their entire top layer of skin in one go as part of their growth cycle and how often they ...

The structures at the bottom of this image that look like scales are actually bundles of muscles just under the skin of a rabbit. This image is a stained cross section taken under polarized light ...

When most people think of burn injuries, they think of damage to the skin. Burns also affect many other areas of the body because the skin plays such an important role in protecting the body from the ...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find that donor keratinocytes injected into mouse embryos form sheets of epidermis that can be used as autologous skin grafts Tokyo, Japan – ...

Osaka, Japan – Plants have an impressive ability to regenerate damaged tissues, but how they do it is not fully understood. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered the mechanisms involved in this ...

The skin can be broadly divided into the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue. Among these, the epidermis is the ...