The trade-off of this hardy external layer is that it doesn't expand; it remains relatively inflexible and constricts the ...

An aesthetician once told me that since I have a thicker dermis (the skin’s middle layer) with a high oil level, I’ll be less ...

Elastin is found in the connective tissue of the skin’s dermis layer. Environmental and lifestyle causes can worsen and accelerate elastosis. They include: Collagen is a protein found in the ...

Getting a tattoo means piercing your skin with needles and injecting ink into the second layer of the skin, called the dermis ...

Researchers from Graz University of Technology and the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) in India are working on what ...

If you're wondering how to change your skin care routine (and if you should), here's what dermatologist Dr Shammi Theesan recommended.

The outermost layer is the bloodless epidermis ... normal skin to grow larger sheets of new skin on an artificial dermis. This skin is then grafted onto the patient. Two months after the attacks ...

Challenging the long-standing belief that fibroblasts produce skin collagen, researchers have investigated collagen formation in the 'glass-skinned' amphibian axolotl and other vertebrates.