When we get a bacterial infection in our skin, our immune system responds. It's been thought that inflammatory cells called monocytes are crucial to eliminating infection, although different immune ...

Researchers found that a common antibiotic-resistant bacterium prevents wounds from healing by chemically paralyzing skin cells rather than attacking them directly. Scientists from an international ...

Humans aren't capable of regenerating lost limbs, but our bodies can heal from many wounds. Whenever we scratch or cut our skin, for example, skin stem cells move in to regrow the epidermis and repair ...

Wound repair is an essential component of life. Without it any minor cuts or scrapes could be extremely damaging or even lethal. Paper cuts are bad enough already without having to consider them ...

A defining characteristic of all cells is the plasma membrane, a thin layer of lipids that separates the interior of the cell from the outside environment. The plasma membrane is supported by the ...

Singapore scientists have found a new way to disarm antibiotic-resistant bacteria and speed up chronic wound healing using ...

Significant metformin levels in the wound exudate of diabetic patients who take that drug along with injectable insulin point to a new possibility for wound healing, a study in ACS Pharmacology & ...

An international team led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has discovered novel properties of the protein Gasdermin B that promotes repair of cells lining the gastrointestinal ...

Research carried out by the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has revealed new information about how blood clots are formed during wound healing. The study “Platelets drive fibronectin ...

The study is the first to identify a damage response pathway that is distinct from but parallel to the classical pathway triggered by pathogens. It's a dangerous world out there. From bacteria and ...

The same family of transcription factors directs the epidermal wound repair in mice and flies, according to two research teams. Their findings might clarify the pathways that initiate outer barrier ...