The basic structure of human sweat glands consists of a coiled secretory region deep in the skin and then a tube or duct that conveys the sweat to a pore at the skin surface. However, it has been ...

Scientists have discovered the signaling pathways that help hair follicles and sweat glands form during development, and identified the mechanism that allows both of these features to coexist in human ...

Glands are important organs located throughout the body. They produce and release substances that perform certain functions. Though you have many glands throughout your body, they fall into two types: ...

HUMANS have evolved a sweaty way to repair skin wounds. It was thought that the body repairs wounds such as bed sores and burns by generating new skin cells from hair follicles or the skin at the ...

Hairy skin may not seem like a desirable thing – until you lack it. Burn and blast victims who require skin reconstruction often do not develop hair follicles or sweat glands on their new skin, which ...

You've probably seen artificial skin before, but never has it been quite so... accurate. Japanese researchers have grown skin tissue that not only includes hair follicles, but all the glands that come ...

Cutaneous appendageal carcinomas—tumors of the skin appendages such as hair, nails, sweat glands and mammary glands—are rare but rates appear to be increasing in the United States, according to a ...

If your hair follicles get blocked in areas where you also have many oil and sweat glands, you may first notice them as pimple-like bumps on your skin. They may be in places where you normally don’t ...