Researchers have proposed a novel integrated framework to understand the complex progression of autoimmune skin diseases. A ...

When the skin is injured, a stem cell’s survival instincts kick in. New research reveals that a simple amino acid, serine, helps push stem cells to abandon hair growth in favor of wound healing, ...

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 ...

Autoimmune skin diseases, characterized by the immune system mistakenly attacking specific skin cells, show high clinical heterogeneity and a ...