Some people have hailed SpudCells as the first synthetic life. Adamala is not one of them. SpudCells are “obviously not ...

Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily on the face. In fact, humans are the only habitat for ...

Two proteins with opposing functions orchestrate the development and maintenance of healthy skin, Stanford Medicine researchers have found. Modulating their activity with topical drugs could reduce ...

Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of the most detailed views of life ever recorded. Day and night, they collect ...

The remains of Ötzi the Iceman, who died 5,300 years ago, contain ancient microbes that are still alive, new research finds.

Even if you don’t feel dirty, the world you move through collects on your skin, slowly adding layer after layer of invisible grime. “During the course of the day, all of your environment accumulates ...

On a sweltering morning last July, Vernon Spear, a burly eighty-five-year-old with thinning gray hair, went to check a chicken-wire crab trap that was hanging from a dock in Cambridge, Maryland. Spear ...

For the past 15 years or so, a class of drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been used to treat melanoma – the most dangerous kind of skin cancer. For many patients, they produce remarkable ...

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Skin remembers. That scar above your eye from when you fell at age 6. That freckle from the summer you turned 13. Our skin is a repository of moments from our lives, and now scientists have found it ...

It’s a running joke in my friend group that whenever someone comes over, I force them to take a shower—partly because I’m a germaphobe, and partly so they can help me test beauty products. I like to ...